Customer Ratings & Reviews

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

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!

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

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

I like this product. It was what i expected.......

The hard drive works as expected. Enough space and speed to back up multiple systems.

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

Reliable and convenient backup drive. Works just fine.

Got this to store extra games on my gaming pc. Works well for the simple task at hand.

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

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!

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

Great accessory. This item is exactly what was wanted for Xmas. It is a very great item.

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 price for alot of backup storage for my Xbox series X. Works great

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

Well this massive backup hd worth they price.and the product is excellent

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

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.

Easy setup and just works. I use it for my Synology NAS backups.