Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought this for my XB1 as my 2TB was overfull. I managed to snag this on a sale. It has worked OK. A few times it has not registered with the XBOX right away, but that seems to have worked itself out. As long as it lasts through the warranty period and then some I will be happy. Wait for a sale, and good luck running out of room! LOL

Runs a little noisier than I’d like and shows scratches super easily, works nice for my purposes though. Doesn’t play nice with most blu ray players because the high capacity I assume.

I've been running a Plex server on my computer for a few years now, and I've collected a considerable media library to support it. However being the type that likes to keep an archive of my favorite tv shows and movies, storage space can disappear quite rapidly. I'd have a 2TB and 2x4TB internal drives, plus a 4TB and an 8TB external drives for 22TB total space. It wasn't enough. Fortunately I found this drive, along with a 12TB one on sale and got both. Now I have 42TB of storage space. I think I'll be good for a while. The only downside I've found on these drives, is that they like to go to sleep, so often as I'm accessing the media, there can be a little lag getting it to open up (thus my deduction of 1 star), but once it does it works fine. Overall the transfer speeds are adequate. I haven't heard any concerning noise coming out of it. The previous WD MyBook 8TB drive is still going strong after almost a decade, so I expect these new ones to last just as long.

Very easy to install and use. Compact and great utility.

This is easy to get set up and use this for file storage. Any software sets up as soon as it is plugged into USB port. Computer does this for you. Then the Easy Store is ready to have your files moved into it, and free up your Computers Hard Drive. Keeping photos and videos on the Easy Store also becomes a backup to your many files.

Allows for FAST, easy and reliable backups. Works like a charm.

Great price for a large amount of storage. Easy set up.

Purchased about a year and a half ago with no issues so far. Thinking about buying a second one as a backup. So far so good, not much to say about mass storage except "it works" and "it's not painfully slow for an HDD".

Out of the box, I formatted the drive to NTFS and set it up using the included backup software. I am using this drive to back up a 3TB and a 1TB internal HDD, and then my 256GB SSD Windows drive. I have a very nice/fast gaming PC with 6 USB 3.0 ports. Given the specs of my drives and this backup drive, I calculated that it should take less than 3 hours to backup ~4TB. Well the process was VERY slow. I tried several USB ports, and landed on one of them directly on the mobo so there was no question that I should be getting the best connection. It took about 30 hours for the full transfer. I backed up each drive individually with no difference in speed. I backed up the biggest drive over night (~2.5TB of mostly movies/shows), and when I woke up, the drive was very hot. I don't think overheating is an underlying issue with this drive, but something is clearly struggling in the transfer process. I tested my ports/speeds by transfering ~80GB of music to a USB 3.0 120GB flash drive and it only took a few minutes. Given that the warranty is decent on this drive and it isn't storing any critical information, I will play around with it and make sure that there is no issue on my end. I will update this review if I discover the issue or need to end up returning/exchanging this drive, I have a suspicion that the WD backup software might be the bottleneck so my next step is to format all that hard work and try the transfer again with no software, and then again with a trusted program after I do some research.

Amazing deal - included WD Red 8TB -- Completely Shuckable - I didn't have tension screwdriver either, but after removing from the case, those 4 screws on the side can actually be twisted by hand with a slight grip. I just grabbed some pliers and with minimal torgue twisted em. I did the last 2 with just my hand. Very simple.

This does an excellent job storing my excess videos.

Computer was failing and this came in handy to save our files

Bought this for my xbox one. Specifically for the upcoming xbox one x and the 4k assets that it will bring for certain games. This 8TB version is definitely enough storage for all my games. So far I have 40 games installed (not all big file sizes tho) and only used up a little over 1TB. I highly recommend getting this hard drive.

I have a couple of smaller 2T ext storage drives and needed more space. I got this monster for about the same price I paid for the smaller ones (each). Easy to set up, Easy to use. WD makes great drives!!

Tons of space and a great price when they go on sale.

Having this drive, a second one. The first was for my photos, and second one, is back up the PC system and relevant files.

I bought this to store all my HD video contents as well as back up data files. The unit worked reasonably well. I don't have it powered on all the time so I'm not really stressing it. Setting up was quick and easy. Transfer speed was reasonably fast. I wish the unit was a little bit slimmer but I can understand the potential thermal issues that can be experienced (perhaps they can use some metal in the housing to conduct some heat away?). Overall, it's a good backup disk to have but the size is big.

Does exactly what it is intended for. Pretty much just unbox, plug it in and start using it. I used this to replace a flaky WD Game Drive and after several days/weeks or heavy usage it's still cranking as expected.

Excellent storage capacity. Great price. Easy setup.

Very easy to use. And is super quiet. Looks good too.