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.

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.

It was easy to attach the drive and format it. Worked as expected.

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

the hard drive worked as expected. Was recognized by my windows pc.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

good product easy to set up. You are able to directly drop files manually with bo problem. i personal did not use the app for this. i primarily used it for games and my game recodings

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.

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.

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.

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

Very happy with this item that we purchased we needed additional storage. It’s very useful to have.

Great backup drive at a good price - just what I expect from Best Buy!

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.

If you want tons of space to save things like pictures, video games, tv shows, movies....etc.....etc.....this is something for you. With that many TB this will go a long ways.