Customer Ratings & Reviews

Not a good choice if you have a Synology NAS that you want to backup once a day. I bought it with the expectation that I would use the "Hibernation" function to spin up/down the WD drive, rather then let it needlessly run 24/7. With Snology's Hyper Backup program, the process is easy to set up. However, WD does NOT provide any tools or configuration tips to manage the easystore with a NAS running a Linux OS. Instead, I'm using a Cable Matters USB HDD/SSD drive adapter attached and configured on the NAS. A 6TB WD Red HDD is installed and works GREAT. The drive spins down after 20 minutes of no activity, then spins up when the scheduled Hyper Backup kicks off. The backups are saved flawlessly every day. Now, I will say that the easystore does work fine for those backups IF and ONLY IF the drive is formatted for Linux and left spinning 24/7. Unfortunately, for me, that just won't do. A single USB drive that is constantly running outside of a raid, seems foolish to me and makes the easystore a bad choice for my NAS's data protection needs. See the attached photo of the Cable Matters USB adapter with a WD Red drive. This is my working solution for my backups of the NAS.

I bought a few of these 8TB externals. It's common knowledge now that these externals have 8TB Western Digital Red drives inside of them. It's the reason why I went with Western Digital, and specifically not Seagate (with their shingle technology). They are very easy to "shuck," allowing you to run them internally using SATA. However, the reason for the 4-star rating is that most consumers will not shuck them, and they do run hot inside of their casing. Temperatures exceed 45c at idle, and do reach 50c with use. Given they are WD Red drives, I'm confident they will survive those temperatures within the warranty period (2 years), but it's been tested and proven that hard drives do not do so well in terms of longevity with temperatures in excess of 40c. If you do shuck them, they run very cool; and you don't even have to install them internally. Just popping off the outer casing, and running a small fan on top keeps temperatures within 32-36c. I personally have 140mm fans blowing on top of mine still running on USB. My internal 8TB actually runs hotter due to less ventilation in my computer. Just keep in mind that if you shuck them and break the case, it will void the warranty. So outweigh the pros and cons before, and do your research on "proper shucking" :) Overall very satisfied with these 8TB Red NAS 256MB Cache drives.

It came fast and well packaged! Amazing item. Would definitely recommend.

This is exactly what I needed for my home computer - very easy to use and end-user friendly

great price for external high capacity hard drive and added convenience of mobility

Is amazing in the ps5 but he do a little noise but is acceptable

No lagging, alot of space in a short case, and portable

excellent product to storage your files easy to install easy to use easy to store

Purchased after my 5 year old WD external 2.0TB external drive gave up the ghost :( USB3.0 is nice and fast, avg transfer rates 130MB/s. Noise is not an issue, have it set to backup my personal files in Win10 file history daily and through backblaze. Runs a little warm at 44 deg C, hopefully I get more years out of this one.

very good hard drive, quality, speed and price. I recommend it 100%. I have used WD for over 15 years

Good deal for the price - it works just fine. Fast enough to at least read and write 1080p 60fps ProRes 422 HQ, H.265 or BMRAW - BM Speed Test shows I'm getting about 200MB/s Read and Write speeds while going through a limiting USB Hub using a USB A to C converter.

Bought 6 to shuck for a RAID10 for $180 each. Bought a 7th one for $160 on Black Friday to add as hot spare. The drive inside retails for $250 at the moment.

it is a good item. brought a 4 tb in the past but I got a 8tb this time.

Since this is USB 3.0 it is extremely fast when connected to a 3.0 USB port on my computer. There's so much storage that my intent is to use it as a backup of my 8 gigabyte raid array. I like this format of the case, versus the new format, because it matches my other cloud and My Book storage cases by Western Digital. I looked on YouTube on how to open up the case and verify that it has a Western Digital red disc inside. It is 5100 RPM however it came with 256 megabytes of cache which is twice what the cache that the older WD Red discs had. I couldn't not be more pleased with this purchase, however time will tell how it will survive through longevity of use. However my intent is not to keep it running all the time but rather only plug it into the computer when a backup is required.

This review is for the WD - Easystore 8TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black Had this unit going 24-7 for two years without any issues at all. Fast and reliable. I may even take the protective film that doesn’t cover cooling vents off the gloss black some day.

Good price and drive is easy to set up, but it seems to be failing after just a few months. I know that can happen to any drive, but I'm still disappointed.

I got the 256 red drive. Easy to shuck. Some videos online if needed to keep from damaging the shell. No issues after scanning the drive initially. Using it for over a month now and works perfect. Looking forward to picking up a few more as I’d like to use these in a raid 1+0 setup. Using on MS server 2012

Fantastic! I used it for my Xbox Series X and have had no problem at all! Super easy installation!

This is my second 8TB Easy Store. I have 0 complaints. Cheap, quiet and they help me increase my media collection. Best bargain around.

Bought 4 & opened them and all 4 were Red Label NAS graded HD with 252MBcache. 48=32TB installed into my WD MyCloudPR4100 NAS which i bought as dishless: 32TB MyClod PR4100 for 50% the market price.