Customer Ratings & Reviews

Item works as intended, installation is easy to do, the hard drive works with its independent power supplied by a transformer, the connection to the PC and the hard drive is with an USB cable that has an specific connector at the hard drive side. It makes an expected sound when writing or reading data.

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?

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.

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

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.

Great price, shuckable, but they run good enough in the enclosure.

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

Provides all the storage I could want for a bargain price.

I totally uploaded every DVD I had onto this so now I can just have this plugged into the back of my TV and or Internet service provider and all of my DVD are accessible anytime I want.

Works very well backing up my computer. Easy to set up and use.

Great Price for Western Digital external hard drive. Drives inside are usually non-tler white label hgst or wd reds. YMMV. As packaged works great as a reasonable fast mass storage backup only spinning up when needed. USB 3.0 but of course limited to the sata limits of the mechanical hard drive. 100-150 MB's maximum.

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.

Great backup drive at a good price - just what I expect from Best Buy!

This drive is not too big physically but probably not something you want to use as a ‘carry around’ portable. The 8TB capacity is large enough to back up all of my 50,000+ photos and other video projects. It has good speed when transferring files. I haven’t had any problems transferring about 1TB of files to it from another drive. Under normal reading and writing of files it doesn’t seem too loud but I notice a light clicking sound every 10 seconds when the drive is idle. I do wish the drive would’ve come with a Micro B to USB-C cable.

Bought as a game drive for my steam games I dont play much or older and dont need a faster drive. Works great! Also streamed Doom 2016 from this HDD to my steam deck with no issues. Would reccomend!

Turned an old 500 mB laptop to a new 8TB monster ready to handle the big jobs.

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

So far so good. I've been using WD drives for my business for years and I've never had an issue with them losing files or malfunctioning so I'm confident this one will be just as great. Easy to set up and works quickly saving files.