Customer Ratings & Reviews

Bought this as a gift for my dad who takes a lot of photo and video when he travels. Perfect for the new digital age format media

Bought it for my Xbox one and was very easy to connect and to transfer information to it.

It got the job done and works fine. Its more than enough space for most things

I needed a backup drive for my primary server, and this fit the bill nicely. Easy to setup and operate, and lots of bang for the buck. I hate to review storage in the short term as my feelings largely depend on how reliable the drive ends out being and how well the company supports its product if needed, but for now, I have no issues.

Bought it to hold games as an extension for my Xbox Series X console and it works very well.

Easy setup, easy to use right out the box. a very simple plug & play.

This was an amazing deal. Jumped on it right away, told my brother, he bought one as well. I am 100% satisfied with my purchase.

Excellent product, easy to set up the backups. Owned for 1 month and working great so far.

Western Digital never disappoints use this for commercial use so it’s on 24/7

I've been using the first 8TB WD External Drives since they came out, but they're noisy, they have no indicator lights that indicate they're in read/write mode or even that they have power, and they never spin down when used with media players and aren't being accessed. Their redeeming quality was that they're super FAST when used with exFat formatting, and of course their 8TB size. The newer easystore 8TB drives are MUCH quieter, they spin down when not being accessed while connected to a media player, and they're as fast as the original 8TB external drives from WD. I wonder if there's a software upgrade to make the older 8TB drive work like the easystore drives. They still won't have the lights, but it would be nice if they weren't always running at full tilt.

Easy to use, good quality. I bought the 8TB as suggested by the clerk, and I'm glad I did.

Not for laptops. But excellent for desktops or gaming systems.

Use this for work and makes saving files and emails easy and fast!

8 terabytes of USB 3 storage. Have not tried the included backup software as I just need it for the tremendous amount of space.

Reliable External Storage that uses a CMR hard drive !

It is a large drive. I use it as a photo storage device. Transfers large files relatively quickly, not blindingly fast, but more than acceptable. It does make some noise.

So far it has worked as expected. WD and Seagate are my main go to products every time. Usually price and availability are the final boxes to check and whichever offers the best exchange in value wins over the other. ***When I first got it, I had to reformat it because there was a partition for the built in software I didn't care for. Otherwise you have two drives show up and it was annoying.

Wish I could have picked it up as a door buster for 129.99 but even at 159.99 on that Saturday, it beat the MSRP cost of 299.99

I have four of these and they work great would definitely recommend.

I have used many brands of hard drives over the years and have found Western Digital to be the best overall. I have had very few to fail on me. Concerning this one, it is quiet and easy to connect to just about any device without any trouble. The transfer speed through USB 3.0 is also good. I really don't have anything bad to say about it