Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great plug and play hard drive for my Mac Time Machine backup.

My SSD hard drive had a scare that it might be failing and that's a horrible feeling. Luckily I went onto the best buy website and ordered for in-store pick up. I got the last one in stock. It was a great steal and it was on sale. I did quick research right before buying and it happened to be on sale, i needed something in store right away, luckily i chose to buy and pick up. When i went into the store, the guy had no idea what he was talking to, he tried to get me to buy the other WD 8TB hard drive that was almost $100 more. I brought it home and it was a plug and play, I backed up my hard drive over night with ease. And it was also a WD RED which was even a better score!!!

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'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.

I wanted to add a storage drive I wouldnt have to replace in a year or so, so I did my research and chose the 8TB WD easystore. Everything has worked great with the hd, my only complaint is that it was not as simple as plug and play. Once I got everything updated, it has worked without any issues.

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.

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.

Excited to find out that these have WD RED drives inside. Should provide a good storage option for NAS or remain a reliable external backup. Price at BestBuy was very good. Time will tell if the drive lasts, but the external has a 2yr warranty and I expect to use it well past that mark.

Always used Western Digital drives since my first PC still have those decade plus drives and they run never recieved a DOA or bad product from them neither so cannot testify to customer support or RMAs. The drive sustains 150+mbps R/W speeds via USB 3.0 It appears no reds now but took a gamble for $140 can't beat the deal for 8TBs anyways. The drive is a white drive SATA / 256mb cache WD80EMAZ Which is now made by aquired company via WD and this white drive has protection if you shuck or remove it. It will not play due to a so called feature in the drive. But boils down to the PSU sending 3volts down 4th wire and makes the drive unreadable via bio's, system monitor software, and disk management. To overcome this you need a simple cheap adapter --- 8inch SATA 15pin Female to Molex 4pin Male Power Adapter (90 Degree) <---- simple highlight that right click and search google Do not buy the cheapo kind that has a molded form "Sealing the Wires" these are known to combust My rig now servers as a 24.7 media server pushing 2to3 streams throughout the house without a issue, 24.7 content digester if you know what I mean, 24.7 encoder via handbrake and endless historical library to HEVC 265, and of course 24.7 workstation and whatever else need be THOR =MY RIG SPECS: Rosewill THOR V2 Full Tower Case Intel Skylake Unlocked 4ghz 1151 socket - OC'd @ 4.6 on stock air cooling. Tested and destroyed water cooling temps on 3 units. Water cooling was 8 to 15C hotter idle/load Cooler Master Hyper 212X 2x120mm fans EVGA SuperNova G2 750W PSU EVGA Z170 FTW Motherboard EVGA GeForce GTX 960 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0+ with Backplate - 2GB's 2x8GB Gskill DDR4 3200mhz memory 120GB V300 Kingston SSD 2x1TB WD Black dual processors [1&5TB dives 150+mbps] 1x5TB WD Black 128mb caches 2x8TB WD Reds [50/50mbps] buy pros for sure 1x8TB WD White {shucked} 256mb cache ViewSonic 27" 144hz DP (1) ASUS 24" 1080p HDMI (2) GSKILL KM780 RGB Mech Keyboard {sux} GSKILL MX780 Gaming Mouse {sux} I do have other brands of drives with my old WD drives decade old and the others are newer and have 2 failing as I type this literally still 0 WD failures/DOAs

Inexpensive, easy storage. Easy to set up, just plug and play.

It holds a lot and it works fine. I have no issues with it.

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

Purchased 2 online through Memorial Day sale 2019. Received 2/2 WD80EMAZ-00WJTA0, which are helium filled (see pic for helium level in the SMART output). The drive inside is luck of the draw. There are lots of threads about these drives if you look around the net.

Saw this drive come up on one of the daily deals for $139. For an 8 terabyte drive, that was unheard of! This will be great for storing my digital photos and movies for for use with my Xbox One or PS4 for game storage/installs. If you can pick it up for this price, I highly recommend you do!

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

Lovely addition to the arsenal I’d rather Best Buy for the Best Buy

This external USB attached disk is EZ to use and the included backup software is also EZ to use. The description for this disk is for a desktop PC but I use it to back up my two laptops too. It is small enough to be portable as long as you have access to a 120v outlet. It is not USB powered.

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

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