Customer Ratings & Reviews

I picked up this 8TB external drive, on a "Deal of the Day". USB 3.0 speeds are around 190MB/s, read and write. So far, so good. I may shuck this later after the warranty runs out.

This is a WD hard drive, what more do I need to say. They are the only ones that I trust outside of SanDisk. I was able to pick this one up at half the price and so I jumped at the opportunity.

I bought this to shuck and use the hard drive in a NAS setup, but needed the extra storage right away. Connected easily to the USB 3 port on my computer and has worked flawlessly so far.

Good drives. Have had some running for well over a year. Drives tend to run hot, but a simple computer fan on top is more than it enough to bring them back to acceptable temperatures.

Large capacity, and worth the price. Speed thanks to the USB port is great. perfect media for video, photo storage and data backup.

A whole lot of space for a whole lot of stuff. I have had no problems whatsoever with this hard drive and has no compatibility issues. Awesome hard drive!

Picked it up when it was on sale. Great price and it works as advertised. The backup program included free is pretty basic, but seems to be working well. I like it a lot!

I originally got this external HD for my kids, but they ended up not wanting it. So i kept it for myself. Lot's of storage. Use it to store my pc games.

This external hard drive is what I needed it to be - big. I'm compiling all of my files from all of my other external hard drives, and this one is big enough to hold them all.

Nice hard drive. Based on my research, it runs at 5700rpm, which is the slowest I’ve read about for a usb3 external hd. Solid state is the fastest, followed by 7200rpm. That said, I got 8TB for about $160, and that’s almost unbeatable online or anywhere. As a photographer, this is a gem. I now have 2 of these

These ain't your grandpa's 20mb hard drives. I mean,, a 3.5" bare 8tb drive is more expensive. You can't go wrong.

Works seamlessly. I plugged it on to my computer and worked like a charm. I didn’t use the software it came with because that takes up space. Just drag and dropped large files over.

I purchased this for use with my router for a NAT setup. Works well. Decent data transfer speeds. Doesn’t get too hot. Quiet enough for my use. Very satisfied with this purchase!

Works perfect as my plex media server! The read and write speed is better than expected, and I'm very happy I opted to go with the 8tb instead of the 4.

This is my third purchase of a WD 8TB external drive of this model. I use two on a laptop I have working as a music server as part of my audio system, one as the drive holding WAV files of about 4000 albums and the second as a backup for that drive. As you might guess, it is pretty important that both those drives work well. They have worked so well and seem so robust that when I purchased a new desktop for my home office, I bought a third of these drives as my backup target for the desktop. Haven’t been sorry about any of these purchases, but understand that this model may no longer be in production. If so, trust the new model will be as good as this one.

Works pretty well, so far. have not had it long enough to know durability.

If you are buying this to shuck it it's an excellent deal as they contain the Western Digital Black HDD which is the performance version of WD drives

Still the best deal when Best Buy has these on sale to shuck the case and use the drives in your home NAS. When these go on sale I pickup one and add it to my Drobo with little problem.

Bought this to backup our laptop. Easy to install and somewhat easy to set up. WD's program didn't want to work so I went thru windows to set up. Works good that way.

I've purchased many of these (15+) over the past year. I have never had a DOA and they are all working flawlessly. WD has always been my go to brand and has never disappointed.