Customer Ratings & Reviews

After losing a considerable amount of data a couple years back I have decided to have redundant backups this 8tb drive is great for my offline backup.

What can you say Western Digital. They put out one of the best hard drives on the market especially the Reds that came inside the 8 terabyte USB external drive. I ended up buying 4 for a new nas setup

This is fast and holds a lot of docs & pics. I’ve copied all the stuff off my laptop and now it’s free to run faster. I can still access all my data too. Win win!!

I picked this drive up when it was on sale a while back, and I think it was worth the money for the storage it provides. I only use it for media for my Plex server. Luckily it's not in a room that I go in very often, because the power plug has a noticable high-pitched while. That's the only reason I took one star away.

This is a great external hard drive for everything you need to backup.I been using it to backup photos,music,movies important documents.I really is the best way to store your memory’s Nuff said

I purchased this drive as I needed a new backup drive. It's a fantastic piece of tech and internally it contains a WD Red drive which is designed for Nas usage. Red drives have a 100,000 hour MTBF rating, which these drives may possibly not reach, which may be the reason WD is selling them as external drives. However I'm using it as an external drive and it does everything I need with up to 150 MB/s transfer rates. Remember drives are marked with 1,000 GB per TB while Windows uses base 2 counting for space so it'll report 7.2 Gb approximately of storage. You are getting 8,000 Gb of space, just not a true 8TB of space. All HDD have this discrepancy between Windows and marketing shorthand.

Works like a top. Very reliable and produces seamless results. I know my data will be there when I need it. Top of the line performance from a top of the line product.

Best one i bought so Far, i am using this one on my PS4 work great i bought another two others using one of them on my Xbox One X , then my PC they all work Amazing!

I love the amount of space this provides me. As a pro Photographer I back up all my work to external drives. With the 8TB device I will not have to worry about running out of space for awhile.

Easy to install. Helps the computer to run faster because the computer no long has to host so much information/photos/videos that take up lots of extra space. Love it.

Works perfectly, straight out of the box. Decent length of power and USB cords. This holds so much that I was able to transfer 4 other drives onto it and still have a bunch of room to grow. (windows)

I picked this up on sale for $150 and love it! Every other year, I pick up a new hard drive to accommodate my photography library. I may be able to skip the next upgrade with all of this storage.

The capacity of the HD is all you can ask, very fast and reliable. The size even though is kind a big, does not represent a problem comparing with my old 4TB HD. Excellent choice at a good price.

I use a lot of storage devices and these take up more space because they don't use USB for the power - but they are faster because of this - great for game systems and movies so you don't get lag

PCWorld advises the avg 2-hour movie takes up about 5 GB space at 1080p, making this monster drive able to hold 160 high definition movies. Pretty impressive!

I've been using this hard drive with my PS4 for the past few months without issue. Very speedy. Games load without issue and haven't had a hiccup. I highly recommend this hard drive.

These always perform well for me and last a good long while. Man of them have the WD red drives as well. Check with smartctl of the like to confirm yours.

These drives on a sale price just can't be beat! These are not the troublesome 'green' drives. I purchased what I could afford, and hopefully I get a second chance with another sale later this year.

You can't go wrong getting this EHD, ESPECIALLY if it's on sale. Ever since losing valuable information on a Seagate external hard drive I've stuck with Western Digital and haven't been disappointed.

WD External Drives are one of the best out on the market. We use these for local backups of servers and workstations. With 8TB of capacity for such a great price its an easy choice for storage.