Customer Ratings & Reviews

The software that comes with the drive is easy to use, and works well. It’s easy to transfer files by dragging and dropping as well.

I had a 4tb USB 2.0 drive and upgraded to this 8tb USB 3.0 drive. The speed difference is amazing, and I now have another 4tb of space to fill up!

The clerk told me this unit could be used as a wireless unit through my router. That is incorrect - it must be directly connected to the computer when in use. With that being the only problem, the storage unit itself has worked very well so far and is very useful.

I use as my external storage for my iMac 512GB SSD. Easy to set up; just plug n play with the Mac. My only critique is sometimes the Mac is a little slow recognizing it when I'm looking for a file. otherwise it works as needed.

Pros: - Read/write speed is great(about 200MB/s) so it's even faster than USB 3.0 sticks. Guess it contains a decent HDD inside. - Huge capacity. 8TB = 7.27 TiB - Does not make noise. Cons - It's AC powered. You should carry both 3.0 cable and adapter. - Somewhat bulky, not so portable compared to other external HDD... But compared to its capacity its okay. Its huge capacity is perfect for backup things, such as my photo, videos on my travel, etc. But it's not portable, so may be used as my backup machine. I'd want to get a 4TB version afterward if I need portable one. Very satisfied.

The external hard drive has worked as advertised. I've had it for about 3 weeks and no problems so far. The price was great when I got it as well.

This hard drive more than meets the demand of everyday use. If you want to back up a lot of files on PC/Mac or (what I use it for) install your games on video game consoles, then this is a perfect drive for you. I found that I have a massive backlog of games, and my friends always wanted me to install older games that I had finished. No longer do I have to worry about keeping those games installed because of the size of this drive. It has fast access to files, and is large enough where I will also use it with the next gen of consoles as well.

Being a retired computer engineer. And had been in the field for many years, had a lot of good luck with Western Digital hard driperiod, external and internal. No problem purchases one for anywhere. Idle box brought it back home. Hooked it up to what I was using it for and had no luck. It was awful. I'll never buy Russian digital again. You all took care of the issue and I purchased a see gate hardware.

Nice. Wish it was cheaper. But did what I needed it to

Received the drive in excellent condition performs flawless wish I had known it was a WD red drive inside I would have bought more could not pass for only $149

Simple to re-format for use on a Mac and large enough to store my extensive photo collection! AND can't beat the price when it's on sale!!!!

Have had it for a few months now and so far no issues - will know the quality of the drive in the coming years. For the price though seems like great value.

Fantastic drive at awesome price. Works great as all WD have for me. I highly recommended this drive, I store recorded TV shows on the drive.

I have many of these and on the few occasions I've had problems WD support has replaced drives with no questions.

I bought this drive to serve up files on my Plex server. The USB 3.0 is adds great speed and no latency whatsoever with large media files streaming from the drive.

8tb is nice for an Xbox one user who has games pass the 4K files are big and gives you way more than enough room to download what you like

Great drive and even better price! I have a ton of these and the 10s in my server. They are quite reliable and I'll buy more in the future.

Fantastic way to store backups for all my home computers. Would highly recommend to anyone looking for reliable storage

..and surprisingly quiet. This is my first WD electronics object, but I'm sure to buy more in the coming year. Great Black Friday pricing as well!!

Somehow inexpensive hard drive. It gets the job done. Some transfer might be a little slow, but it's been reliable so far. These always go on sale so I would suggest waiting to get a better deal.