Customer Ratings & Reviews

Worked on the spot. Pretty plug and play. Plenty of space for whatever you use it as.

It's an 8 TB external hard drive. Good speed and great capacity, never thought I would need so much space but with 5 TB of Videos, Audio & Data you do need it. Real easy setup, just plug into a usb 3 port, let the PC identify the drive and start copying.

Best Buy Deal of the Day had this device for an unbelievable price-- I think it was less than half the cost of the bulk OEM same-drive-in-a-bag. I am sure that the software and housing work great, but I shucked-out the drive for use in a server. It was easy.

So far everything is working great! Speeds are pretty good it actually surprised me.

Need storage? Want a reasonable price? WD Easystore always hits the sweet spot between price and quality. I own multiple of these and have yet to have one die on me.

Let's face it, we're all collecting more and more data each day. Music. Photos. Documents. Etc... It adds up fast and your good day will turn bad really fast in the event of a hard drive failure. It's happened to me a few times in the last 20+ years. Why not back up all of those important documents, photos or songs? I don't use it myself, but this WD HDD comes with free backup software that knows when something is new or changed and backs up according to a pre-set schedule. This way it's not trying to backup everything every single time the backup software runs. It's incredibly easy to setup, so don't be worried if "back ups" are new to you. The WD Software is very basic and easy to use - for me it's too basic, but that's me. Oh, being USB 3.0 also means it's going to be a lot faster at transferring data than your old 1TB External HDD that you purchased in 2008. I'm a serious data horder with a computer rack of equipment in my house you wouldn't believe. My main system is RAID (a type of backup for lack of a better explanation in this review), but I still prefer to keep external backups as well. After this purchase, I now own 6 of these 8TB HDDs. Normally, the price is $20-$30 higher on Amazon. This was a GREAT deal from Best Buy. Oh, if you think you don't NEED 8TB of storage, think again. You might not need it 'today', but you will need it at some point and if you do a breakdown of the price per Gigabyte of this 8TB HDD and other 6TB & 4TB HDDs you'll see you're getting more bang for your buck. Finally, if you have multiple computers you can setup a network share (it's a lot easier than it sounds with Windows) and use this 8TB HDD to backup your home desktop PC and even the kids laptops without moving the HDD back and forth between computers. This isn't the fastest way to do things, but it is possible if you're on a budget.

I have been using WD for longer then I care to say <aging myself> but this is a workhorse.. if your looking for a drive you can set up and forget about, this is for you..I now have 3 of them and keep everything on them

Well constucted external usb drive. Write true read write usb around 86 mbs. Not terrible for a usb external drive. Easy enough to open and turn to an internal drive for better performance. Like all hard drives, you will pay a premium thanks to chia

Love it. Runs great. Easily installed. Great backup

Just plug in and ready to go, This is my second- plenty of useable space for all of my music, docs, pictures, back-ups. Not bad looking sitting on the desk just have to keep the dust off- would reccomend to be an essential component of any system.

Good external storage. Large enough it should handle most peoples needs. USB 3.0 much faster than older drives I have had. Was able to back up files from 4 different computers, including a lot of large video files and still haven't used 50% of the capacity.

Got it on sale making it a solid deal. Mine has been running in the enclosure for almost a year now. I do use an 80mm USB fan to help pull warm air through the enclosure. A cool hard drive is a happy hard drive. Or something like that.

I've been a long time fan of Western Digital hard drives for their reliability, and this is another accessory winner for my devices. Great reliable storage and competitively priced. As long as you are careful with this product, it will last for years.

Great backup size for a reasonable price. Works with USB 3.1 without the additional price for USB 3.2 disk drives.

My daughter bought this for more space. Plug and play. Haven't had any issues with it. Works great for what she needed.

Whatever deal was struck with WD, Best Buy is able to offer the least expensive external 8TB hard drive on the market whenever this goes on sale and this SKU is completely exclusive to Best Buy. Six months in and no reliability or noise issue to report. Expect transfers of around 80 MB/s on a USB 3.0 connection.

8TB Easystore (BestBuy exclusive product line) uses quality 5400RPM helium filled Red (WD80EFAX) or white label (WD80EMAZ) drives, these have NAS/RAID features (i.e. TLER) that are important for some uses. The high-capacity drives are a great value, especially during frequent sales. Thai produced drives have 256MB of cache. Runs a bit hot in the plastic enclosure, not much room inside. If you plan on writing TBs of data at once, keeping a fan blowing over the drive may help. For my use case (NAS/media servers), both red and white label drives worked out really well (no 3.3v issues with 3 of my EMAZ) in my Dell R510, with Unraid directly accessing/managing disks via H200 adapter flashed to IT mode.

Does what I needed it to! Much better upgrade than the “gaming” external drive I had. Setup is easy enough and has plenty of storage.

I puchased this for my PS5 the PS5 only supports up to 8TB of external hard-drive storage but I had to prepare myself because those game are gonna take up alot of space get it while its on sale 8TB is an insane amount of space ill never run out of space

My main reason for purchasing this drive, was the reliability of WD drives. The fact it had an enterprise level drive inside was the deciding factor. You may or may not get one of those drives inside, but either way, you get massive, quiet storage. This is not a drive for speedy writing or access, it's for data archiving, and using for streaming ONE movie at a time. I am breathing alot easier, knowing that I have all 3 of my 5tb drives archived on this one 8tb. Yes, I know that 3 of those drives = 15tb, but they aren't full yet either. Anyway, back to the point, if you need a reliable drive with tons of space, don't hesitate to buy this. It's a solid purchase. Did I mention it's very quiet?