Customer Ratings & Reviews

This external hard drive works exceptionally well for what I needed it for I would highly recommended this external hard drive.

The storage keeps going up as the price goes down. Easy to use and step up. Plug and play.

I can always count on WD hard drive. Had to replace a not so old Seagate HD that failed.

It's always a relief when a computer product works right out of the box, and the WD Easystore 8TB was truly "plug and play." It is serving very well as a backup for a NAS. It was offered at a really great price, I ordered it online and it was at my local Best Buy when it was supposed to be. That's the way business should function. Nice work!

Easy to set up; functioned right out of the box for transferring files from a desktop PC.

Terrific deal on a quality 8Tb which can be used outside the enclosure! Attractive enclosure and fast read& write performance.

Works great with my mac for saving files and using as a time machine

I needed this hard drive to manage my expanding dj music video collection.

nice hard drive, good price. Have always had good luck with best buy and western digital

I bought three of these drives to do what many others have done; shuck them and use them in a NAS RAID array. Shucking isn't as easy as it looks on the YouTube videos, but it's doable. I managed to get it right by the third drive. Many, many people, including YouTube channel creators and magazines have noted that these external drives contain WD Reds! Well, imagine my surprise when I found that in two of the three external drives were WD drives with a plain white label, not Red. The white label drives, as long as the purchased drive is marked on the box as a "Product of Thailand", does have 256MB cache. Further, though these two drives aren't "Reds" per se, my new QNAP TS-451+ NAS has no problem working with them. As I write this, the NAS set up no problem and is building the RAID-5 array and should be done in a few hours. I do think these drives are worth it if you want to build a NAS and don't mind shucking them. Don't do what I did. Shucking them without snapping tabs inside the enclosure is easy once you know how. Take it slow, and don't try to pop the sides up. Once pressing on the two retention tabs with a solid object like a credit card, you just have to slide the wraparound cover off. The inside actually rides on rails inside the wraparound cover. I don't know anything about any of the software or throughput features of this drive because I never turned them on. They're worth it for an 8TB drive that costs way less than $200. If you get a WD Red, even better!

Works great and you can't beat the price! 10/10 Would definitely recommend!

Good TB to $ ratio when bought on sale price. Works as intended. Faster than competitor equivalent but a little more expensive.

Got tired of deleting games off my PS4, so grabbed this external, and threw my entire collection on it. No complaints so far.

I bought two and ended up shucking them for my Plex drive. They both ended up being white labels and needed the 3-pin tape trick for them to work, but they work just fine. They both have been running since November non-stop without issue. I would definitely recommend this for anyone looking for big storage needs.

We purchased this to back up our home computers and laptops. So far the easystore has lived up to its name. It was absurdly easy to set up and use, and has performed flawlessly so far. I can definitely recommend purchasing the easystore if you're looking for a quick and reliable way to back up your computers/data.

We purchased this to back up our home computers and laptops. So far the easystore has lived up to its name. It was absurdly easy to set up and use, and has performed flawlessly so far. I can definitely recommend purchasing the easystore if you're looking for a quick and reliable way to back up your computers/data.

I was looking for a high capacity drive that did not have shingled magnetic recording as that destroys drive performance. This WD drive is a regular PMR drive and I think I will be quite happy with it at the sale price.

Great product! Easy to use! Even bought a second one as an additional backup!

Works great, no issues. Would buy again. Fits my needs.

Got a great deal during the holiday season and I love it. Just plug it in to a usb and it simply works. Fast and responsive.