Customer Ratings & Reviews

I had a WD external drive die on me. I went to Best Buy and purchased a new 8TB unit and started the task of retrieving software. A few weeks after I was filing receipts and found a warranty I purchased for the dead unit. I went in and this is the item available for replacement. I gladly accepted it as I didn't expect to get a replacement since I didn't remember buying the 4 year warranty. I took it home and left in unopened in the closet. I started using it about 2 weeks ago and it tends to make a grinding noise when it's writing. Not a I'm going to die noise, just enough to make me worry. It's the cheapest one WD makes, so in this case, I get what I paid for. I just hope it lasts.

What a great product. Excellent quality. Can’t complain about it at all even if I tried my level best.

It's larger in size than expected but it works well.

This is a good external drive. It contains a WD "White" drive which has the same specifications as the WD "Red" drive, which is a NAS rated drive.

I'm using this to store some additional media for my Plex setup and so far seems fine. Plugged it in and it worked without issue. I was a little curious about it's funky usb cable but as long as it works it works.

This is just the device I need for long-term storage of games and other large applications that I'm not actively using. It's also somewhat durable. This device fell from a counter twice by accident and it's still operable.

I backup everything, and I mean everything to this drive. It is fast and very responsive. It easy to setup. So review state it runs hot. Mine does not.

you get what you see. Nothing more nothing less...

Very Happy with it, set up was very easy. Had lots of trouble with my last one transferring games but this one was a breeze and at an unbelievable price!

Got this drive for about 50% off on sale. Amazing deal for a drive of this size. Should give me more than enough space for my Apple Time Machine backups.

This drive was the size I needed and came well recommended by others who have similar video storage needs. It has proven reliable and fast enough for me.

These external hard drives are a good value for the size. Good for shucking and using as an internal hard drive.

I use this external for my PS4. Can hardly tell the difference between this external and the PS4 internal in terms of speed.

This went on sale and I knew I had to have it. The speed is great. Have several 250 gig hard drives now I can put all my stuff on one drive

Nice drive, fairly fast for a mechanical drive. Was at a really good sale price. I do not use the software that came with it, but its there.

nice fast HHD, recommended, no problem at all and good price for it

Would buy another one at some point if necessary..

Great little external drive, but if you ar planning on shucking the drive mine came with a WD White Drive not the WD Red that older ones came with and it would not work plug-n-play as an internal drive...

WD produces very good droves for video editing work. I have portable WD drives for editing video on the road. They work great.

I hooked it up to my router, now I have a big NAS storage, it's fast and slick, and really inexpensive!