Customer Ratings & Reviews

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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.

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.

So far, I am getting good drives (8,10,12 TB) and bought them over the time. I also bought one 8TB from Amazon beside Bestbuy. They are all running great! I took out 3 of them out from the enclosures since if something is going wrong, I couldn't read it anymore when connected directly to sata on my mobo or other external reader. I think it is the matter of block writing format that WD USB enclosure is using. -12 TB I left it out as cold backup for my photography -10 TB as hot backup for my photography. I also put my daily files to the drive. -8 TB as my Linux drive for steam games and software application -8 TB with original enclosure as media files -8 TB unused for now These drives are quite. Good for backup, storing active games installation files, media etc. Whenever I need to edit my photos I move them to my NVME or regular 2.5" SSD and move them back after my edit. The curse of having large raw files from my mirrorless camera, you need large storage. I am planning to buy a 14TB or/and 16TB soon this week. I still have a lot of 500GB,1TB,2TB, 3TB and 4TB drives around from Western Digital, Seagate, Iomega. So far out of 15: -2xSeagate. One 5TB portable I purchased failed spectacularly in just short few month. The 500GB is running great. -2x Iomega. One 1TB failed around 10 years ago. I think one of them is still running but I left it is collecting dust. -The rest of the drives are Western Digital and they are all still running good with only 1/10 which is a 3TB failed after 3 years. Some of them are over 10 years and still running. It is crazy. -The last one I couldn't remember the brand but I gave it away. I wish I am getting red drive but I learned recently WD using SMR for most of the drives I purchased which is a let down. As long as they are not failing I am happy.

I bought 3 of these and they all made noise and spun up constantly out of the box. Spend the extra money and get a western digital red drive

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.

Would buy another one at some point if necessary..

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.

Useless no instructions on how to install or how to use or how to remove the folders from your old unit and where they are stored and how to retrieve them

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.

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

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

We usually buy Seagate, but they had a great deal on this drive. Yes, it is a very good drive. The thing is that although we take really great care of our drives, we have had a Seagate take one small drop before and was fine. This drive wound up getting knocked over by someone, and it was a smaller bump than the Seagate, and this thing wouldn't recover at all. Tried all kinds of programs to at least get the data off, and it was completely gone. I know that the bump was not WD's fault. That is why I still gave it three stars. However, I think it should have been more durable than that and also should have been able to at least recover some, if not all, the data on it.

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

Bought this because I read that it has the WD Red drive in it, which is a NAS drive. Got home and was able to confirm that it is a red drive. Very happy.

I wanted a hard drive that would be able to store a lot of music, movies, and pictures, and this one happened to be on sale and available in store.

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