Customer Ratings & Reviews

By far the best terabyte per dollar storage option available right now. Highly reliable drive

USB external hard drives aren't a flashy piece of tech, but their benefits are huge. Personally, I am using this drive on an Xbox Series X for storage of my Xbox One library. I had recently outgrown a 4TB drive and the 1TB internal storage on my One X was maxed out, so 8TB on sale was the next logical jump. Being able to hold your library and GamePass games locally is great. Load times are good, but obviously not as great as SSD. As a spinning HDD, there will be some drive noise. Mine was sitting on an entertainment cabinet shelf and just having the drive on was noticeable. I then found that if I bore out a hole behind the cabinet and lay the drive on its side on top of some styrofoam tape, the drive noise is all but gone. Obviously, everyone's situation varies, but for me, this was a fairly easy fix. I also have two of these drives that I've shucked and am using in a RAID configuration in a personal server at home. In that scenario, they are pretty quiet, as they are in a cool basement closet, and have been in use for about a year and a half now. I can easily recommend these drives to anyone looking for additional space.

Some have dissed this external drive based on the heat generated by the drive itself. That may result in shorter lifespan, or it may not. We would all like the hard drives to last forever. None of them will. For the mean time this is very inexpensive storage. I need the space but only need to have it connected to the computer periodically. It will be a number of years before I know for sure but I suspect it will last at least twice the time of the warranty and probably longer based on how I used it. In terms of cost per Tb, this is probably one of the, if not the least expensive options. I have this connected to an older computer on which the formatting of the drive causes an issue with my bios. Before storing it, I reformatted to a compatible format. The format shipped prevents a restart on my computer when the drive is still connected.

Can't beat it, easy to set up and reliable. Replacing all my older Seagate drives with these

Great price! Super quiet. Easy to use. Small size yea.

Excellent size storage for saving all my stuff. Easy to setup and use with long warranty.

It is very easy to use, It also holds a lot of data.

Opened case and removed hard drive. It is WD red hard drive as expected. Great performance.

I have purchased several of these over the years for data archives. Several of the drives that were purchased from Best Buy are still in service. I have five of these drives. The only one of these drives that gave me any trouble was purchased online from another vendor...NOT from Best Buy. Some are at lease years old.

These WD Easystore drives are great drives for storing media.. They're basically a Best Buy in-house labelled version of the WD Elements or WD My Book drives that are available through Amazon and other retailers. The drives inside the case are usually white-label WD Blues, Greens, or Reds, but your mileage may vary. Enjoy!

Excellent storage capacity at 8tb at an arrordabke price!

Massive storage but I did have issues with Windows 7 and 10 64bit not immediately showing it in File Explorer, I had to go thru Devices (not to be confused with Device Manager) to initially access the storage and the WD setup files included. I believe it was more of an issue with Windows than WD Can also download files from WD.

The WD 8TB External USB Hard Drive is good for storing old files, images, and videos.

Easy to setup and works well - good price for storage

Great purchase for the price and need. A flash drive does not have the same capacity. Now I can store all of my Mp3,photos,software and other personal data. I can't wait to share my great purchase with all of my friends. Maybe they will want to purchase a hard drive of their own with the same capacity. Thank you verymuch.

Great storage and easy to use. Not super fast but great for just storing whats needed

Nice drive and has always been reliable. Some of the models I've had click a bit but SMART / checks say they're fine. Other than some excess noise they've been perfect.

I can store so many music files in this drive, however, I use it to store 8K pictures of various restaurant appetizers, most of the drive is filled with mozzy sticks. If you need any recipes, find them in recipe books!

Easy to set up. Backed up lots of files quickly. Is fast enough to work with Lightroom and Photoshop. Doesn't take up too much room on my desktop. Great price for 8T of storage. Comes with WD software to run automatic backups. I recommend it!

Working great for backing up my movies on Plex 8TB on sale for $129 thank you Best Buy.