Customer Ratings & Reviews

I've come to trust these drives after purchasing several for my own use for for work use. I'm a video editor - so they get a LOT of use!

WD has been my tried and true for years. Easy to use, just plug in and start transferring files. I was able to transfer countless hours of video footage with ease.

Every 10-20 seconds it makes a click; from what I've read, that's to be expected. I guess it wouldn't be a good idea to keep this "always plugged in" to be available for a scheduled back-up; thus my forgoing that in the back-up s.w. settings. Never tried WD Backup, but the version of Acronis that comes with it, is the anemic stripped-down version, rather useless for anything other than cloning a disk; not what I had in mind for a backup. Will allow an upgrade to the full version at a 10 buck savings....the path I took for an additional $30. I guess time will tell, if the thing will last far past it's meager 2yr warranty. Then if the Acronis backup Software fails, the device matters very little. Only time will tell; will up-date when a catastrophe strikes....if possible :)

This drive has been very reliable. I use it to store and access large amounts of data for research projects and it fast and reliable.

Great for storing those games you don't play alot, but want to be able to access them without waiting for down loads. Keep in mind it's not an ssd and is loud like the older hd that comes stock with a basic pc. For the price and what I use it for it's perfect

These use untried disks with a notoriously high fail rate which is why they're so cheap but BestBuy will replace them within the return or Geek Squad period or then Western Digital will replace them within the 3 year warranty period. However, don't register these with Western Digital unless & until you need to replace them because the WD registration is nontransferrable. Dont yank the USB cable or power adapter from the hard drive. Unplug the power adapter from whatever external power souurce first. Also, don't drop or hit them nor store next to heat source or in the sunlight

There's plenty of storage to keep everything stored and backed up. It's a bit bulky to work with, and strangely this one is not as fast as couple other drives I have of the exact same type and model. The actual hard drive inside these models might vary, so it's a hit-or-miss.

I bought this for the X0X and I don't expect to ever have to buy additional hard drive space within the next 20 years. If I do I'll go buy another one of these 8 terabytes.

Bought this to use as my main hard drive for my PS4. Easy to setup and I have no worries about running out if space for games. Purchased on sale for great price.

Pros: Reasonable transfer speed with usb 3.0; value of money Cons: Bulky, needs external power.

Very awesome hard drive i use this for everything and stores all my impostuff on my computer and my games plenty enough storage

I havent had a problem out of this one at all. It does what it needs to in the background without any maintenance at all. Only thing is if it's in your view you'll see the white light blinking when its reading data but that's not a problem for me.

On sale for $130 each. Shucked them and put into Synology NAS. Virtually identical to WD Red drives at almost 2X the cost. Ran extensive testing. Works GREAT !!!

Grabbed this on sale. Just what I was looking for to backup a number of pocket external drives that I carry for work and school. No issues yet...does what it is suppose to do.

Hard to find a better price for so much storage. I use this as supplemental storage, and copy everything back onto my hard drive for when I need to use data.

Good 8TB Storage has independent power source-not usb that puts less demand on your computer. However between usages it does require a few seconds to spin up and ready.

No complaints. This was purchased for a work related project where we need something portable and reliable. It was in stock and no complaints.

He for my xbox since the old 2gb was getting a little small. Does what they'd was supposed to do

This thing works as expected. I bought it to store my massive amount of photos and videos. It serves that purpose just fine. No issues at all after 2 weeks.

Easy to set up in Windows 10 environment. Backup seems to work