Customer Ratings & Reviews

This item rocks! I use these for my media server for 5 years now just picked up another one while on sale and have no regrets. After setting it up it works as I expected. If you’re looking for an external HDD I recommend WD.

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.

This external hard drive works well and is easy to use. Although the first time I brought my computer to Best Buy for them to back it up, they didn't actually do it and the hard drive was empty when I got home. I brought my computer back a second time and that time they actually backed it up.

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.

Works as advertised. Very easy to shuck, though might want to consider another drive that is easier to verify if cmr or smr

This is one of many great products from WD. Easy to use. No need for any apps to download(there optional). Just plug in and it good to use. However it is just a bit expensive.

It's very fast, and works well in general.. however it seems to disconnect itself or "fall asleep" semi-frequently and will no open folders, without me unplugging it and plugging it back in. Feels like it's trying to crash on me two months in.

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.

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.

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

Works well and have had it for over a year. Pleased with it.

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

It was easy to install, and it works great. Would definitely recommend.

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.

Excellent storage capacity at 8tb at an arrordabke price!

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!

WD easystore is doing as advertised making saving 8k photos and everything else easy. I bought a generic ext. HDD online and still cannot access the drive w/ valuable data on it for no reason other than it was a Monday I guess? I never save to the cloud because you never own your own stuff...they charge storage money don't they and if you do not pay they cut off access don't they? Rates will always go up, never down so...Maintain ownership via via HDD then in future when external SSD storage becomes affordable simply copy files over to the new.

Plugged it into my PS4 and now have a LOT of space. Worked great, really plug and play.

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