Customer Ratings & Reviews

Definitely worth works on my ps5 now i can store all the ps4 games that i own.

The HDs in this unit are the white label red drives. Cache and rpms, speed test - everything confirms red drives. The enclosures are very easy to shuck, and if you are careful and make sure to keep the parts, you can reuse the enclosures for other drives. Have two of these running in a Synology 418play and no issues with setup or configuration. Great drives for use in a NAS, or for use in the case as an external HD, and hard to beat 8 TB for the sale price.

The hard drive is working well although I have only had it for a short while so we shall see how it performs in the long run.

Excellent price per TB. WD Red drive inside makes for great 24/7 use. I have purchased 4 of these drives to date.

I use mine as an expansion drive for my PS4 and love it . I cannot stand to delete games I’ve worked so hard for , yet do not want to sacrifice quality of gameplay either; this drive restores my happiness and faith in the present/future of gaming . No lag , easy to format , no noticeable running sound.

This external drive can back up all the systems in my house. I'm amazed at how large they make these drives now.

Needed a large 8TB drive to move my XBox one X games between the Xbox and the 8TB drive. This drive works great.

This external hard drive is full of memory and has a great look to it.

Let's start with a few examples. 20 years ago you might have downloaded The Matrix onto your PC. A 2 hour movie, standard picture quality - might have taken between 600 megabytes and 700 megs. Then tvs boasting "hi-definition" 720 pixels per sq inch came on the market. People wanted the better picture and gradually 720p TV became the norm. But if you downloaded The Matrix in 720p the file size would be larger - maybe 1.5 gigabytes for the same film but higher quality. Then TVs boasting even better picture quality emerged - the 1080p sets. If you wanted to download The Matrix in the 1080p format you might be talking a file size of 2 gigabytes or more. Now 4K tvs are being sold. That is a single picture frame is now composed of 4,000 pixels. Same film, but the higher density of the pixels makes for transformational film viewing. Pretty soon, the hard drive that came with your PC is going to be filled up. What will you do? Some people will simply delete stuff to make room for new stuff. Others (call them digital pack-rats) will buy an external hard drive. Depending on the size (density) of the external hard drive you might be able to store the entire run of Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, all the Marvel and DC Superhero films and much more, all in 4K quality. The only drawback to this digital film library is that external hard drives can become "bricked" and no longer can be read by your PC. Yanking out the USB cord without following the proper procedure can cause the X-Drive to become bricked. I have several 500mg external hard drives that I use for paperweights- and that is why a "large" external hard drive is so important. I regularly download a film or tv show and try to watch it right away. If it seems like something I'd like to watch again I transfer the file to the larger external hard drive. I'm being operated on next week for prostate cancer. Even if all goes well I will be housebound for a few weeks. I am anticipating enjoying a movie marathon!

It’s really work good and life saving for data storage

Plugged in, formatted it for Mac, started Time Machine. All working fine, quiet operation. A good deal at $160.

A good amount of storage. Fairly easy to shuck to put the drive in a NAS.

I have owned quite a few portable external hard drives in the past, and this one sees to be the best so far, It has advanced features that make the drive seem more like an internal drive. It seems to be able to copy whole lot of files very quickly.Moving a terabyte quickly seems quite easy, I hope this drive lasts a long time, because it's very handy, and makes storage very simple.

I had purchased 2 of the 4TB easy stores in the past for video storage. They worked out just fine. No issues at all. So when it was time to purchase another, it was an easy choice. I couldn't find a new 4TB drive. While searching I found the 8TB at a price drop. Couldn't be happier.

As with all WD external drives it does its purpose well. Needed the extra storage and got it for cheap price.

shelled 8 of these and used in an 8 bay NAS. 48TB of RAID 6 storage for only $1200, which is totally bonkers.

I use these for network backups of servers. Simple to use and reliable.

Reliable, easy set up, and reliable external hard drive

The cost of storage is/has/and continues to drop through the floor (especially for spin platter designs...SSD will follow). So, getting this guy for the price, to serve as the home server, was a no-brainer. WD has a good reputation. I've had several smaller sizes of this design with no problem. This one has become the music, video, and movie files server location. I'll be adding a second solely as a backup of this one (...because...they're really inexpensive...even if you need to replace one...FROM YOUR BACKUP! :) ). Beware, they sell models advertising "personal cloud" which is the same thing as making a drive available to your local wifi network...don't spend the extra $40-$80 bucks on those models...just attach this one to your network. Yes, those models provide software that manages multiple touching of files but when does that REALLY happen in a household?

Outstanding price on sale, cheapest dollar per gig ever. Work great as a secondary drive plugged into my NAS