Customer Ratings & Reviews

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.

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.

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

Just what I was looking for, item performs with no lag.

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.

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 value for the money - has been a reliable backup for several devices. Will buy again

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 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.

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.

Works well. Flawless so far. Easy to use. Nothing sexy or glamorous but works like it should. I just wish it would not come with the proprietary software which makes it a little more difficult to use than it needs to be.

Great external hard drive. USB 3.0 on windows 10 gives me speeds of an average of 100Mbps write while simultaneously hosting all my media files and being streamed by plex to multiple devices. I would HIGHLY recommend this hard drive to anyone looking for fast dependable storage.

I have used WB Easystore external HDs as backups for about 6 or 7 years now - and I've never had one fail yet. I also use the drives to work off from making video content, with hundreds of gigs of info going back and forth, with no problems whatsoever. A highly recommended workhorse of a drive.

I picked up this drive because of several other reviews. I picked it up on sale and for price/TB, it's a great deal! I've been copying data to it and it's practically silent. I will eventually take advantage of the WD Red drive inside, but for now I'm happy with this purchase!

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.

I purchased the 8TB WD drive as a second back up for my photographs and video, which require much storage space. I prefer smaller 4TB drives, because if the drive goes down, you can lose a great many files with a larger drive, but this is a second back up, so I took a chance on the larger 8TB so that it would hold more. It is performing well thus far, as expected. I have many WD drives in use, and I have only had one go bad.

I bought this to use as a backup drive for my WD NAS. It was the right size at the right price on sale. Some reviews mentioned it gets hot, this made me wary, but I also have it in a fairly open air space and use a fan throughout the year so it will benefit from that keeping it cool. I haven't really check the temp as of yet. If I feel it's remaining warmer than I would like it to be, I will turn it off and only put it on when running a backup. Time will tell if it holds up or fails but, so far so good.

Have 2 large WD Easystore External hard drives. They work well with my laptop.

I have used the EasyStore external HD for two years now and it has been very useful to have instant access to backed up files. It turns on and off and disconnects easily which helps prevent data loss which I have had happen with smaller external drives. I recommend it highly.