Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have lost everything in my computer in the past and I did want to pay for more cloud storage. I consulted with my brother that one of the geeks at Best Buy. And we decided this would work for what I wanted. And it has. I have my music, pictures spreadsheets and back on this drive and there is still more room. it is compact and if I didnt tell you it was there, you wouldn't know

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

We love the external hard drive so much that we’ve got well axing on eight of them and I’ve had never ever had a problem with one

Holds a huge amount of information. Use it as a computer backup and to save information related to genealogy.

Easy to install and fast reliable performance. Plug and play.

very easy to use, plenty of space for storage. no issues.

Great price for an 8 TB drive. I have several computers and two cellphones I need to back up pictures on. This allows me to do it locally.

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

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

Great reliable drive with a tone of space. So far so good.

After trying this one, never bought another brand for external storage, I own 7 of this different capacity. All of the keep working as first day. Thanks WD for your product and to the store for best service ever.

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.

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.

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!

I like WD. Very reliable. Occasionally I have had one or two stop working after a power bump; BUT found that if you carefully open the case, take the HDD out, remove the attached Sata connection card, and use it as an internal HDD; ALL the data is still there and accessible. Love it !

Connected easily...drag and drop...love the huge capacity.

Lots of space in a book-sized hard drive. Easy to store away and take around with you. It does require a power source to turn on as the USB port is not strong enough to turn on by itself.

Expands storage and excellent for safekeeping of important documents. I keep mine in storage just in case my computer goes down and I don’t risk looking hours of work

This item is great for storing data like family photos and videogame data.

Exactly what I needed to store pics and videos. Works great.