Customer Ratings & Reviews

Good storage device, but sometimes freezes and have to force task end and retry.

This hardrive Worked Well for what I needed it for.

Bought this to help handle all of the future 4K data that would have eaten up the 1 tb internal in a flash. Works great and should last quite a while with the extra 4tb of the same brand already attached.

Although purchased as a gift, this is one of many Western Digital drives I've purchased over the years, and have never had any issues with them (aside from running out of space). Easy to set up and to move files to. Quick delivery, especially during the busy holiday season!

This has performed well for my needs. As an amateur photographer I use this drive to backup my collection of raw files

This drive is great, reliable with good software included. Inside of these external cases are the NAS-rated, very well liked WD RED drives. Can't beat the nice drive, and great price/space for 8TB drive!

I bought this to replace a 6 TB MyCloud that is no longer supported. It was easy to set-up and works fine. Massive storage!

Works well, stores all my files like a champion, 8tb meets my needs

Great for extra disk space. Move your pictures, and videos to it to free up space on your primary drive.

Awesome size and great deal. Got this as a Black Friday deal and worth it to back up all the important family photos and videos. Western Digital has always been reliable for me.

If you see this one, buy it. I'm backing up everything on this beauty. Awesome prices, would love to see more colors and designs for this product.

Very good quality external hard drive for the price. Very easy to use, setup, and begin transferring and storing data. Came with some junk on it that I had to remove so that wasn't so great. Otherwise, this is a fantastic external hard drive.

I have several hard drives that I use for work and personal photos and videos. These hard drives are dependable and I have not had any of them fail.

This WD hard drive is my fourth one.Very reliable and plenty of space.Great price for the amount of storage,

I have another 8 TB drive from WD, so this was kind of an easy purchase. I read about (and knew about) the noise it can make, but that is a trivial matter. It is not loud enough to distract from work or pleasure while on my iMac. I have had great luck with WD products and always recommend them. This one is no different.

Easy to use. Self start up and boots up quckly. Priced right.

I would like to give this five stars. I usually have good luck with WD drives; that said, the latest run of USB 3.0 drives from WD have a known flaw in their firmware. It turns out, they are not fully compatible with older (as in, two years) USB drivers. I bought a 6tb drive this summer; it would randomly turn itself off. The only online fix was to try to find a new driver for my computer. Since the computer was HP - obviously there was no online support. So the problem was never resolved. I had hoped that they would have addressed that problem in the newer 8 tb drive. They haven't. First set of files I tried to move, my computer (an HP Envy i7 - 4th gen) lost the drive - disconnected it. Pretty aggravating - because they seem to be solid drives and the price per gig is good. Just be careful until you are sure the drive won't be shutting off on you during a transfer.

easy to install. Loads fastest if plugged to USB port on the PC itself. Slowest when plugged to multiport usb router whether powered or not!

I have been looking for an affordable drive to backup all the 1 and 2 TB drives I have sitting around. This one works just the way I want it. I have emptied 5 drives to it and it is still not half full.

I have always used WD external HD's, so I expected flawless performance. I use this drive as a Time Machine (backup) drive on a Mac. After a few weeks of use, it failed to work properly, causing me to reformat the drive again. Since then it has been working perfectly -- so time will tell if it will continue to work well.