Customer Ratings & Reviews
- Model:
- WDBCKA0080HBK-NESN
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- SKU:
- 5792401
Customer reviews
Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars with 7214 reviews
(7,214 customer reviews)Rating by feature
- Value4.6
Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars
- Quality4.6
Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars
- Ease of Use4.7
Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars
Customers are saying
Customers have good things to say about the easystore 8TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive, particularly its excellent storage capacity, reliability, and ease of use. Many appreciate its fast USB 3.0 transfers and quiet operation. Some customers mention that heat may be an issue.
This summary was generated by AI based on customer reviews.
- Pros mentioned:Reliability
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Steady Workhorse
||Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.I have bought 4 of these drives over the last two and a half years and, running almost continuously, performing as promised. Enough said.
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Simple safety
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Really like this backup drive. Simple instructions and set up. Plenty of storage space at an affordable price. BACK UP YOUR DRIVES!!! Better safe than sorry.
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Worth it
||Posted . Owned for 1.5 years when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.My son plays a lot of video games online, which uses a lot of storage. This was reasonable and he is now able to keep all his games accessible for use.
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
It stores data.
||Posted . Owned for 1.5 years when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.What else is there to say? These store data. I have a bunch of these easystore drives, and they've never failed on me. *Knock on wood*
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Works great for my Playstation 4 pro
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.I purchased this just for my ps 4 pro. Now I can just down load the games I want, works great for those flash sales on mini games. It plugs into one of the controller ports.
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Storage meister
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.These drives are finally getting large enough to do me for my data caches that must sync with Dropbox for Business. Greater hosting backup, and fast enough to work just fine.
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Lots of space!
||Posted . Owned for 9 months when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.This device is great! I use it to store multiple mp4 movie files. I never run out of space. I really like the product.
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Reliability
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great deal for the price
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.I have used WD drives for several years. I have purchased many of them over the last few years. This drive is a great value since the drive inside is a WD Red drive so this drive is built with reliability. WD Red has features such as NAS compatibility, increased reliability and more.
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Price
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Works great. Use for large cad files
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Best price hands down. I ordered online once from another store and it was broken, nice to pick this up locally and know no parts are loose inside the box.
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Ease of use
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great External Storage
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.I've had the drive for a year now and have had zero issues. Good read/write speeds and simple 'plug & play'. Will buy more when I need the additional storage.
I would recommend this to a friend Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great value!
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.This drive is fast and quiet. One thought - it would benefit from multiple 3.0 USB, currently on one PC, but as an 8TB, should be able to connect to at least two PC's.
I would recommend this to a friendRated 5 out of 5 stars
Shuck 'em or use 'em as-is, they're a super value
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.These drives are ~5400 RPM "white label" WD Red drives in a non-encrypting enclosure. They work great in the enclosure and they're awesome for "shucking" to use in a big fat RAID array. Be aware that the enclosure has a sleep timer that will put the drive to sleep after a certain amount of time; if you try to run a SMART long test it will abort once the enclosure sends the sleep command to the drive for you. The lack of encryption means that an enclosure board failure doesn't render all data on the drive unusable which is a major advantage of these over the WD My Book etc. series drives.
I would recommend this to a friend- Pros mentioned:Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent - works perfectly with my PS4
||Posted . Owned for 1 year when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Very happy with the purchase. Fits more PS4 games than I could ever possibly have time to play. Works great, never had any issues.
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Usb
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
As advertised
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.I bought this hard drive for my son’s Xbox One. As soon as I plugged it in, the Xbox recognized it and formatted it immediately. We were using it in under five minutes.
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Price
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
REDs
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.What can I say, they are WD reds with a lower warranty. Pull them apart and throw them in a NAS. Price on sale is fantastic. Hopefully one day i can replace these with SSDs.
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Storage capacity
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Mass storage
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Not much to say except that it’s a ton of storage space for a small price. I run a small business that deals with large video files and this is a nice backup.
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Price
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Pretty disappointed.
||Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.I bought this drive on sale for $130 with every intention to take it apart and use it as an internal drive. To my surprise it will not so much as spin when plugged in as an internal drive. Not recognized in bios at all. I’ve taken my toile external hard drives apart in particular the 4tb WD My Book. I’ve taken 3-4 of them apart and they work just fine. The main reason for doing so is because generally those boxes have WD reds in them so if I catch one on sale I can get a normally $150-160 hard drive for $100. Just overall disappointed that this didn’t work.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Not as easy as it should be
||Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.I have a Mac laptop and plugged this in and it was telling me I had to all sorts of things I didn't understand to make it work. I tried doing them and my computer told me it was a bad idea. I ended up having a friend come over and he had to (I think?) reformat this Drive to make it compatible. After that, it worked great. But I wanted plug-and-play and it was not.
This review is from WD - easystore 8TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black
No, I would not recommend this to a friend- Pros mentioned:Reliability
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
WD excellence
||Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Quick and easy set up. Reliable and quiet. Best part is drive goes to sleep with a slow blinking light to let you know it is in sleep mode
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Ease of use
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.these were a great addition to my hard drive collection I seem to have going since we keep filling them up .... have had no issues with this easy to setup
I would recommend this to a friend




