Customer Ratings & Reviews

I'm a big fan of WD external drives so I knew what I was getting. Right out of the box it was ready to go. No formatting necessary as I was using it as a capture device for my XBOX One S and X. I even bought 2 because the Black Friday price was to good to pass up.

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

Lots of storage and decent speed for retrieval although probably the computer that carries most of that responsibility

Have you ever had a Hard Drive you had everything on, when it just quit working? And you had no backup? How'd you feel? Well, this is my "Back-up" to my "Back-up" to my "Back-Up." I never want that to happen again. Research says WD is a good brand and the price was right.

I needed a drive that would store a large amount of data, long term, and this drive fills the bill. Operation is very quiet and speed is satisfactory over USB. As always, make sure you have alternate copies of critical data files as no method of storage is forever.

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.

With the HUGE data storage tasks I have to deal with (4k video; high bit-rate WAV audio production, engineering data management tasks, etc.) I need BIG storage tanks to keep projects in one place and not 'spread out' over several computers. This is the way to go.

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

This drive is filled with 4K movies and has function flawlessly for going on three years. Excellent value.

Western Digital *TB external USB drive - I only buy WD external drifves as I have never had a drive fail, they work all day long end up thrwoing them away when I need a larger size!

What is not to love about this. These externals contain WD's NAS RED drives. Depending on if it is from Thailand (256mb cache) or China (128mb cache) it is an amaaaazing buy. If you were to buy these as internal drives they cost almost $100 more. HEADS UP: If you shuck the drive you void the warranty but I have never had problems with these drives. Talk about a SUUUUUPER buy. Perfect for PLEX server.

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

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.

The good. These hard drives work well when they do. Bang for buck, it's one of the better deals. These fail less than the Seagates. I consider this model at a higher standard than most other brands aside from Hitachi/HGST. Performance is good. Data speeds are fast as long as you're copying large files. The hardware itself rarely fails. I've only had one hard drive fail hardcore out of 10-12 of these backup drives in the last 8 years. So, I'd recommend this drive. Now for a short story: Ok, so I've bought about 6 of these over the last 4 years. Out of the 6, 4 worked and still work. I bought 4 from BB and 2 elsewhere. I was lucky because I had 2 fail rather quickly. The first one had errors in the copied files when I checked them right after the back up completed. The data on the second one, after 3TB of data was copied to it, disappeard and Windows asked to "repair the volume", which it did and recovered the data. Turning it off then on, it happened again and this time with permanent loss of data. Fortunately, it was only a backup and I just returned the drive to BB and they replaced it with a new one. BB was really good at exchanging both devices with no hassle. Great experience. I highly suggest to buy these hard drives from BB and not other online retailers to avoid handling. The new ones worked great. By the way, on one that I bought which worked fine, the SERIAL NUMBER of the hard drive did NOT MATCH the serial number on the box. That was interesting. I still don't know how to handle this but...I guess the serial on the hard drive matters mostly to WD if problems arise. So...I just thought I'd mention this in case someone out thre experiences a similar situation.

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.

I got this during the sale for $139. I’ve been trying to decide on buying this for a year now and jumped all over it during the sale. Only problem I had is that I wanted to install internal any my bios just would not recognize this drive, no matter what I tried. Not the drives fault since it is external... Just disappointed. I already recommended to a friend and we both purchased at the same time.

I have another WD 3TB external hard drive that I used for 2-3 years before filling it up with family pics and videos. It worked great and still does. I read reviews on this 8TB unit and the internal workings are listed to be state of the art and very dependable. I was hesitant to get 8 TB but the price was so good that I couldn't pass it up. It has worked flawlessly so far and should last me a long time with that much capacity. Well pleased with WD products. The customer service is super, the few times I have had questions about the unit.

Initially purchased a WD 'My Book' drive for myself two - three years ago. I was looking to protect all my files to prevent lose from a computer failure which happened to me several years back. So when this WD 'Easy Store' was placed on sale I purchased it as it has larger capacity than my WD 'Book' moved the 'Book' to my husband's computer and all is good! I'm old school not a big fan of the 'Cloud' for me this is a great backup drive fast and plenty of storage capacity at a very reasonable price would recommend to anyone in need of external storage, who like me isn't a 'Cloudy"! am

This external drive brings down the cost of storage to the point where you can keep all your stuff plus some. Creating a system image or using the WD backup software enables you to keep multiple backups. USB 3 is the only way to go for high speed transfer.

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