Customer Ratings & Reviews

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

Currently using it for storing server backups locally. So far it has been perfect!

My Hitachi external back up was no longer working went to Best Buy to purchase another one. Was Installed by Ryan of the Geek Squad so far so good.

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!!!

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 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.

Bought this so I could have a place for old photos that were on my phone. Works as expected.

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.

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.

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.

8TB right out of the box. Found by both a MS Windows and CentOS systems. Data transfer slightly faster than earlier WDC drives.

Bought this on black Friday deal. Amazing product for a better price... Planning to each this in my NAS

Easy to setup and works well - good price for storage

Really enjoying my 8Gb ext USB Hard Drive for my X Box One X wish they had a larger drive in stock that evening I would have totally gone with a larger drive with 4k Gaming NOW on X Box One C gonna be nice to have as much space as possible so I can download my entire DIGITAL XBOX LIBRARY

I plugged it into my Linux computer ad was able to easily format it as ext4 for use on my Linux systems.

Nice having 8TB of storage. But I have a network drive connected to my router. I can see it on all my Windows devices, but the WD Backup software could not see it. That was the drive I need backed up[,because I have mp3 and pics and other stuff on it. Contacted WD support no good kept referring me to their software that won't do what I want. Found Nero Back It Up sees all drives on my network. For an additional 39.99$ now working like I want.

Works great. A great value! Tremendous storage value for little money.

I picked up 2 of these when they were on sale. One for each my wife and my daughter. My daughter hooked it up to her xbox one and away she went loading her games onto it. It was very seamless and has plenty of storage space. My wife uses hers for storing pictures, as she is a photographer on the side. It gives her an incredible amount of storage space for all her pictures. Again, she hooked it up to her computer, and away she went. Very easy to use. They have had them for 3 months now with no issues at all. Plug and play, very spacious drive for the avid gamer or photographer, or just anyone who would like the extra back up space.

Not too bulky and the speed and extra storage is awesome.