Customer Ratings & Reviews

I use this as my secondary backup drive for media. It run really quite. The only downside i see its not ssd and 16 tb lol

I bought 2 of these for my Son and saved a boatload of money from the Holiday Sale at BestBuy. He also bought 2 to use as backups for the first set. He has tons of movies that require a lot of storage and requested this model. I shopped around and couldn't find a sleeker design or a better price anywhere.

Pretty nice HDD for the price, easy setup and easy to use

Bought one of these for my son in 2019 and another one in 2020. He already had one so now he has three. He shoots and edits a lot of video so needs a large amount of storage space. He's happy with the three that he owns.

Reliable! I have used these for years with no issues at all. I can not say the same for other brands. Get one!!

For the money, it's a great investment in having a backup drive for all of one's files, especially being able to keep up a local backup of what one has floating around online (in case online services start dying off one by one).

Drive worked as expected, transfer time great using the drive in its case. Removed the drive and installed in computer, works great as well. You cannot beat the drive, a Western Digital Red that is inside. Ended up purchasing three of these, price per GB compared to a bare drive makes it a easy purchase.

Good value for the money and not putting my personal stuff out on the cloud for risk of being stolen.

this is a small footprint , large capacity unit. I have not got any feedback yet on it's operation and efficiency.

Not much to say. Plenty of space and Usb3. Personally used for backup of a backup then stored offsite.

WD is awesome, I have several WD external drives and this one 8TB drive is now my secondary backup for my other WD drives. Why secondary, drives fail, cryptovirus (hopefully never), one drive to grab and/or have in my "In case of emergency quick grab bag", you know Hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, etc. This is one drive that I trust, one drive maker that I trust and Western Digital is the one brand that I trust. Not to mention that it's super easy to use, plug it in and in a few seconds your ready to use it. Catch it on sale and it's a great buy! Keep safe!

good product easy to set up. You are able to directly drop files manually with bo problem. i personal did not use the app for this. i primarily used it for games and my game recodings

I love this hard drive. As a videographer it's perfect for storing old footage, but I wouldn't recommend editing off of it!

Once again I had to get another external hard drive in order to back up all my files. I don't store anything on my computer's drive and usually make sure that I have at least two (2) copies of everything. I have used Western Digital drives for many years and never had a problem with them. Great product!

I've always had good experiences with WD external hard drives and I expect this one not to be the exception. I plan on using this for my security cameras when I install the system. I will update my review after the system is installed.

Well worth the money to have all my archived files in one place instead of looking in multiple drives. Now I can use my other drives for new projects. This was easy to setup and then transfer files without any problems!!!

I purchased 2 of these for my unRaid server when they were on sale. I voided the warranty by shucking these and knew what I was getting into. unRaid rebuilds parity with these at 155 MB/s and takes about 14 hours.

Great item and vakue. I feel always very good when this tyoe is purchased

Very happy with this item that we purchased we needed additional storage. It’s very useful to have.

Plugged it in to AC power and the USB port on my MacBook Air (with USB-C to USB-A adapter) and it fired right up. No complaints at all about the drive. I am hoping to get several years of service from this drive.