Customer Ratings & Reviews

BB has lowered this drive's price on 20 days of doorbuster cheaper than BF and this was the lowest price so far $139.99. Love it. You can use immediately out of the box if you are Windows users, The drive includes the apps for you to check bad sector, S.M.A.R.T, etc... (you can download on WD website anyway). Rumor and confirm that inside is RED with 256mb cache, great price if you plan to buy multiple drive for your NAS.

Everything we expected out of the unit. Yes its larger than the poket units, but the storage capacity is the limiting factor.

The drive is quiet and performs well. Lots of storage at a low price. My only drawback is that I wasn't able to connect it to my router and use it as an online drive, but that may be because I didn't spend enough time trying to get it setup correctly for that type of use.

Usage: transfer files from main drive to free up space... Main drive for classwork!

Ridiculous amount of storage. We got it to add space to the PS5. Works great with it.

These drives are good for backup. However, the one that I got clearly has one of the noisy and hot NAS type drives that uses more power. I have taken the drives out of a few of these in the past for use in my DIY server but this one with the hotter drive stays as external.

Low Noise, High Capacity Desktop Hard Drive. Good deal for network storage. Western Digital has always been reliable for me.

Why spend money on another monthly fee for more and more cloud space when this is a one and done solution.

I am a avid pic taker so I have thousands of pics have a smaller version of this and it was full time for a new one...

Absolutely amazing piece of equipment. Easy to use and definitely recommend.

great drive to buy when onsale, the 8TB drive gives plenty of rom to save your stuff. The no frills packaging is strong but easy to remove in case you want to use it inside a machine

Now I can download all my classic flix and not worry about running out of room. I really needed the storage space.

This is my second storage device ( First One was a 4 TB). Massive storage for the money ( Black Friday Special). Its efficient, quite and easy to work with.

The surprise hidden inside each of these high capacity external drives is apparently a Western Digital Red NAS-rated hard drive. These are designed for long life and high reliability. While not ultra-high speed, they are more than enough for USB 3.0. An excellent value.

Another name brand product stopped working. It cost almost twice as much as the original product to recover the data. My original Western Digital, external hard drive is still working after buying it years ago! I am happy with WD reliability and recommend their products.

I bought this to use as a media server. So far it has worked flawlessly. The price is excellent for 8T and though I'm not sure it is a "red" drive...it seems fast, reliable, and suitable for my needs.

Easy setup (plug and play). Fast USB 3.0 transfer protocol supported. Automatic backup software seamlessly integrates with Windows 10, 8.1, or 7; downloadable NTFS driver to support macOS. Ample storage space for any application.

This is a great drive, which I use to backup my NAS server. It doesn't appear to run hot for me, but that may be because it's only doing incremental backup. All in all, I'm very happy with the purchase.

This was purchased to save on iCloud expansion costs. It is super easy to use and portable. Highly recommend it.

Needed a larger external hard drive and this seemed a good deal for the amount of storage for the price.