Customer Ratings & Reviews

My 4TB external USB drive is getting full. I have almost 10years worth of collected family photographs. Time to get a new one and start the 2018 photo folder. Great drive. It is a RED WD internal drive which means high quality drive, not your cheap ones. So quality is there and longevity and reliability is excellent.

Great backup storage. The easy store is easy to use like the name implies and it was priced right when I bought it on sale here at Best buy. Have not had any problems with it and I would buy another one in a heartbeat

I’m so happy with this Easystore external 3.0 hard drive. My wife and I had so many pictures and videos across a couple of laptops that we just unloaded into this hard drive. It’s awesome!! Definitely more techy than the old school photo album my parents had :D Overall happy with the size of the devise as well. Makes it easy to travel with.

Extremely useful! All of my files are backed up with no issues and with space to spare. Excellent value for the price.

I've purchased multiple Western Digital drives over the years. Always reliable and easy to set up. The only reason I keep buying new ones is that I store too much data!

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.

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

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?

My computer and external hard drive has a capacity of 2tb. After 5 years the storage on both were full and the computer was running slow. The easystore has a capacity of 8tb and was easy to self install. Now I have capacity to spare which should take me 10 plus years to fill.Great price on black friday

I was running out of space so I purchased this external hard drive. When I purchased it, it still came with a Western Digital Red hard drive inside it that uses CMR instead of SMR.

I already know WD Easystore, and it is a reliable hard drive. Four years ago, I bought one of eight 8TB for all my photos and have had no issues. Now, this new 8TB drive will back up all my videos and music files. Great product.

I bought this on sale with the intention to store my downloaded games, purchasing an NVME or SATA is way to expensive for the amount of storage a Hard Drive would offer. I am pleased with this purchase! Games load in fast and i dont have to worry about storage ever again, i have about 60 games installed and downloded over 200 game mods, I still have about 85% of storage left. With video games storage increasing over time, consider getting a separate storage device specifically for storing games and game mods.

Great for go pro videos, music, family picture easy setup decent price

I purchased the 8tb hard drive to backup my computer as well as provide storage for my Plex Server. So far everything runs smoothly and the backup application that was provided is simple to use. I highly recommend this product if you're looking for a simple external hard drive with a lot of space.

Purchased it to backup my PCs and am very happy with the quality and capacity of this drive. It's truly plug and play, no need for configuration. It's fast and quiet. I highly recommend it.

Great for backup. If you have lots of GoPro footage (that takes up a lot of room), this drive provides enormous backup space and it's so affordable! Western Digital which makes it more reliable than most, means I can save important files without worrying about running out of room on my laptop.

This is the only external hard drive I buy anymore, I start each year with a fresh drive for storage and will continue getting these ones from Bestbuy, thanks!

I like the glossy, smooth look of the WD easystore 8TB external hard drives more than the WD Passport version. The price was better too for what I thought would have been the same quality. They measure approximately 6.5” H x 2” W x 5.5” D so are about the size of a small, thick book. They are bigger than a portable hard drive and must be connected to an electrical outlet to power it, unlike the smaller My Passport which is USB powered. I like the capacity and the price per TB is much better than a typical portable hard drive. The Bad I have connected the drive to an electrical outlet and it has failed to power on. I made sure the cord was firmly seated in the drive and in the wall outlet but it didn’t power on. I tried unplugging it and plugging it in again a few times and sometimes it powers on. This is disconcerting! I’ve never had this issue with a Western Digital Passport. I wonder if the Best Buy easystore versions are made to the same quality standards.

I have had no problems so far. easy to install...really just plug and save. You can Back-up files, pics, movies... whatever you want to save and have it put away....just in case.

Switched exclusively to buying WD about 15 years ago and enjoy many of their different lines of drives for various purposes (external, secondary desktop, DVR, Security system, game systems, drive toaster use, etc.. in Green, Blue, Black, now Red with this one) Never been disappointed. This product is no exception. Very quiet, and well performing over USB3 after doing multiple tests with Crystal DiskMark and HDTune. I ran it through a 2 week burn-in (bit pattern erase + verify + media scan) with no errors and no loss in performance or early failure errors. Now moved a lot of backups from smaller high GB to low TB drives over to it.