Customer Ratings & Reviews

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The instructions are extremely easy to follow. In order to use it with all my Apple products, I highly suggest going into the utilities app on the computer, and formatting the drive to APPS prior to use.

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.

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.

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

Worked great right out of the box! Saved my pc drive from massive clutter.

Always a little early to review, since I purchased less than a month ago. This drive is hanging off my router to be accessible by two Win10 pc's, plus a Linux server. Since it is not a cloud device, getting it shared was not easy, which is why I rated it 4 stars. If you are not tech savvy, go for a different version. I also purchased this because of the other reviews that says this contains the highly rated WD Red drive in it.

I've been using this for one of my backups for several months and have had not problems with it. Has enough room for my numerous photos and videos.

This drive which I got for the storage capabilities is phenomenal. The interface is simple, read/write is quick, the system is very responsive and with 8TB, plenty of storage for my movies and such. The internal drive alone is worth more than I paid for the entire unit. Awesome!

Using this as a backup drive for video footage. Not editing off of it but so far it's done the job.

It's very fast, and works well in general.. however it seems to disconnect itself or "fall asleep" semi-frequently and will no open folders, without me unplugging it and plugging it back in. Feels like it's trying to crash on me two months in.

Purchased this on sale as my first external harddrive. I expected lightening fast computer recognition when connected but it took several minutes. But I kept replugging it because it did not show up as an available drive quickly enough. Once it showed up, I used it to back up my hard drives. The best part is that I took it over to my 4k tv and plugged it in the usb3 port and there was my entire harddrive. I could select movies to watch and it would load and play them flawlessly. Took it to a friends house and connected to his computer and it showed up very fast. LOVE the size. You can never have too much storage.

Does what you need, plug it in and store your data.

Found this on sale and I thought the price was very reasonable. Very easy to use and WD is an extremely reliable brand. Replaced a 3 TB WD Drive that lasted me for years.