Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have found these drives reliable and very affordable.

I've been needing to backup all of my information onto one product for years and finally I've done it! Obviously this product works. It's easy to setup as well.

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.

This hard drive is really great ESPECIALLY for the price. I have it hooked up to my Xbox series X and have nearly 500 games on it. It’s been great so far!

needed it because I had another 8 TB start to act stupid. So far this unit has worked flawless.

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!

Drive is quiet, runs cool, and has high capacity. Performance is very good, especially considering it runs at 5400 RPM.

Product performs well and is easy to set up and use.

I'm a person that constantly work with big files and this hard drive have provided me with the space and not to mention the transferring of files is fast.

Fast external backup drive for several of my computers. Works well, as it should. It takes time to determine reliability, which is critical for backup storage.

this item goes on sale around black friday. Good when it is priced at $120 (new). I think going into 2021, the 12 and 14 TB will be more affordably priced. I've bought two 8TB and two 12 TB when on sale at Best Buy. I have heard that some people shuck these and these are the White Label drives. Good for NAS and home Plex servers. Best Buy is really great for buying many products when on sale.

Easy transaction and usability; simple instructions; lightweight and very moveable; an affordable and an excellent backup system

Simple and easy to install. Not a single issue has popped up, couldn't really ask for anything more than this.

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.

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.

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.

Lots of storage space for the money. Western Digital makes good products, haven'y had any issued wioth their products.

It does what it says it does. Good value for what I was looking for.

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.

Great external hard drive. Easy to use. Plenty of space and I got it for a good deal.