Customer Ratings & Reviews

This 8T drive is great for backing up system, application, and personal files.

I bought this HDD after reading several reviews stating that it has a WD Red drive inside, and it does. At $180 it is a huge deal. The drive can get pretty warm since it uses passive cooling, but I'm not too worried about it since I will be using it to perform a once a month backup from my NAS and then I will store it offsite until the next month. I highly recommend this drive.

It's the best product. I loved it because I could buy it at reasonable prices.

As a video producer, I purchased a few of these for “deep storage” of my work.

Drive works as expected. Best price around for 8TB hard drives. Will buy more.

This is a very shockable drive, it pops right out. They are still white label red drives but they are definitely air filled and not helium filled which means they tend to run a bit hotter. Either way when these go on sale I’m a sucker and buy to that I can shuck it like an oyster and pop it in my NAS.

Solid drive, not much to say. Ok value/price point for amount of storage.

Ease of installation and large storage that becomes portable in seconds makes this external drive my go to storage for all my business photography.

Best HDD for NAS I bought two from best buy. Satisfied with price and quality

Very easy to use, copy file quickly. I like it. Buy it again when it’s fulled.

Worked exactly as I hoped it would; 1/2 off the price convinced me to buy it.

This Western Digital External hard drive is perfect. 8tb is a lot of storage.

Exactly what I wanted, 8 million gigabytes . No excuse not to do backups now.

Excellent quality product that required little to no setup time with my laptop.

Excellent hard drive. Works flawlessly connected to my router. And super fast

I had the older 3tb model which worked great for years, but after I bought a fourth hard drive, I needed to increase my backup space to something above 6tb. This was the perfect choice! It's really much smaller than it looks. The only negative is that it's not USB-powered, and has to be plugged into the wall, but that's to be expected with something powerful like this. Some people say that it's loud, but I honestly don't hear it. Probably because it's sitting at the end of my desk, right next to the PC tower. It doesn't include its own backup software, which the earlier model did (and it wasn't good). I personally recommend AOMEI Backupper, as it's much faster with more options than many others, and the free version works perfectly. Always keep your data backed up!

Easy to setup. Item as described on page. Excellent for videos and pic storage

I download a lot and need to back it up. This drive serves the purpose well.

This is a very nice product by WD. I like the mini size but still very fast.

Very good capacity, no issues during initial hook-up, used as a back-up to files, movies, and pictures.