Customer Ratings & Reviews

I use this to store important documents and photos. It replaced an old 500 gb external drive. The increased speed transfers with usb 3.0 is amazing.

Purchased this when Best Buy was having their daily deals during Christmas. Got it for half price. Works great for adding additional memory to my desktop computer.

I can’t play games from the external storage I don’t see any point in this thing at all. It was a waste of money and now I can’t return it

Tested great 256mb no errors. Specs Identical to the Red version w newer plain white label, same firmware as well.

Bought this as a gift and was happy when I got it on sale for 139. Always nice to have extra storage for all you digital content. Definitely worth it.

The drive is fast and allowed me to drop 2 4GB drives off of my system and into my son's system. It wants to configure as a back-up but I am using it for storage.

Bought this to replace my old ssd external drives and was very impressed. Transfer rate was good and had no problems after. Only downside is that it vibrates a little when data transfers are in progress. Would suggest getting a stand or mount.

Great pricing for 8TB. Fast transfer speeds with USB 3.0. I use it as a master back up for my whole system and could not be happier.

I'd give it 4.5 but that's not an option. My one and only complaint is that when my Xbox one is in hybernate, the external hard drive randomly spins up. And if the USB is unplugged while in use the hdd some times takes a while to stop spinning.

I partitioned to make backup couple of devices I have and make sure is plugged it and when you don't need unplugged. otherwise keeps backup as much as you want.

WD Red inside. Best home consumer RAID drives out there. You won't be disappointed.

Solid external hard drive. Read/write speeds are fast, at least to the point I don’t find myself thinking it’s taking too long. Not much else to say, really.

Great backup solution, plugged into windows 7 box, added drivers and boom... backup with no problems. Now had for a couple weeks and works well.

Great drive for a great price. The USB 3.0 connection provides fast transfers. It's perfect for my photo and data backups

I have been using this external drive as my backup device without issue. I am also a WD users for years. always have confidence in WD products.

My 3 tb Toshiba is just to small and needed more room to store favorite videos and all the photos I have taken for work.

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

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.

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've been using this drive for over a year now and it still works great. I shucked it and am using it internally in my PC. It doesn't have the fastest writes speeds, but it isn't slow for my needs. I haven't had any issues with the drive.