Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great drive for Mac Time Machine backup - reformat for Mac using Disk Utility. Really good value for 8TB! Quieter and better value than the other WD 8TB.

Price tends to move around on this drive, but when I purchased it it was by far the cheapest way of getting so much storage for your money. High quality WD Red drive in an enclosure that can be easily dismantled if you want to place in your home NAS or similar. Have already put it through it's paces and have been very happy with the results.

Great product plenty of storage easy to use would recommend

A good basic external HD. I formatted it to work with my Mac, and it only took 5 minutes from the time I opened the box to the time it was set up and ready to go. If you’re looking for a good, simple external HD at a great value, this is it!

Got a great price for a ton of storage. Works flawlessly.

Drive was purchased when on sale for $179.99. Very good price point. Intended use is for Xbox one X game installs and transfer. Performance and speed has been very good when transferring data from the internal drive on my Xbox One Elite to this unit. Also, no discernable noise can be heard from the drive from our normal sitting position.

The WD BLACK 8TB storage drive was s a bit hole lot of storage for a very low price. This is a no brainer.

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

If you need large external storage at a decent price, this is a pretty good option. Not a super-fast drive and not necessarily built like a tank but, if those aren't your needs, then this drive will do just fine. Easy to set up and reliable operation. I purchased two for some backup needs and all has worked just fine.

What's not to love? In most instances you get a WD RED drive (256mb cache if you get one from Thailand) for over $100 less than the internal version plus a decent external usb 3.0 case. Cooling/air flow could be better in the case but it does the job well enough. 2 Year warranty vs 3 for the internal but otherwise it's all positives.

Overall easy set up. I am still working on getting everything I want backed up. I have not found how to get Google photos to back up to the drive. But at this piont I am blaming myself. make sure the setting are set. mine was only backing up the os at first.

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.

Great drive with high capacity for backup. The only real issue is it does not cool as well as it should, but it really is great to have all that capacity. I must be pleased, this is the second one I've gotten. Sure is a long way from the very first hard drive I ever bought; a 20MB (yes MB) drive. This seems to work great and quiet.

Western digital! They’ve been solid for me. This one works!

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

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.

I bought this as a Christmas present for my son and can report hes using it with alot of space on his computer now so its a win!!!

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.

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.