Customer Ratings & Reviews

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.

Works great,backs up all my music,total of over 300,000 songs

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.

Installed 2 8 TB drives and using it as Raid1. It was comparatively easy to setup. Using it for a week.

This hardrive Worked Well for what I needed it for.

This is a nice sized hard drive. I'm using it as a backup for my Mac system. The price was good compared to other options I've looked at. While it comes formatted for Windows systems, it is not too difficult to reformat to the Mac file system. But you have to do that to make it usable.

I had to buy a new hard drive since a few of my older ones were starting to become defective, and I needed to back them up ASAP. I couldn’t just get any hard drive though, since I’m using an older Mac with Snow Leopard still! Thankfully this drive is compatible and it helped me save my files with no issue.

The performance aligns with expected standards, enabling the efficient backup of a variety of files, including videos and photographs from main computers. Nevertheless, the transfer speed from the easystore unit to other computers is relatively slow, akin to that of numerous external hard drives. In summary, I would confidently recommend this product to my business colleagues.

Lots of storage at a very discounted price. Easy connection via USB

Stores files like you'd expect. Software is included on the device, had to restart before it worked as it should after installation. Overall great way to keep your media.

I have several of these. I buy them Black Friday every couple years as the sizes increase. I am setting this one up for a Plex server at home connected to my router directly. I have a 4 TB connected to my Xbox One which is a faster interface than the internal drive and much more storage. Feel free to research the faster connection as I did before I bought this for that purpose. I have some others as external storage on my computers.

Great External hard drive, I'll save all my pictures here. No issues found on this HD.

We use it at work to backup video production, so we go through space pretty quickly. We've found that backing up on a hard drive like one and then storing it in a safe deposit box is much more cost effective than paying for "cloud storage". This unit is compact and easy to use.

I have been using Western Digital products for years and have always had excellent results. You can't beat the price for the 8TB drive. As an Apple person I need to format my drives to Mac Compatible and it is a breeze. Handles Time Machine without fault and stores my wifes 100,000+ photos with ease. Yes, on occasion the drive does make very slight vibration on my desk that is virtually imperceptible and rare and runs very cool. I tried a Seagate as well and it was a mess. I highly recommend this drive as well as my additional 5 Western Digital drives that have given me nothing but excellent performance. I keep a full b/u of both my Macs on two different Western Digital drives and keep them locked away for safety purposes and only pull them out to update. I never worry that Western Digital will let me down and if needed, Customer Support was excellent when I had an issue with Time machine not backing up. Not Western Digitals issue, a mistake made by me.

This unit offers plenty of storage. No problems , easy to setup, time will tell about it’s longevity.

Excellent hard drive to store music and many other things. Great storage.

This hard drive is easy to use and holds a serious amount of data. I would definitely purchase again!

It is a Huge amount of space with a great price husband loved it

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 was looking for additional back-up storage. I purchased the WD easystore 8TB Plug and Play Desktop back-up unit. My Linksys router has the USB port to allow the connection of storage that can then be shared across the network. I attached this drive to the router and set up the shares. This unit can also be used as a Media server. Files and Folders can be password protected. I would recommend this for a solid back-up solution.