Customer Ratings & Reviews

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 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 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.

I had to do my research on this product and I was glad that I was able to purchase it. I was able to fit in all my pictures and documents. It was very easy to install as well. I do recommend it

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 have lost everything in my computer in the past and I did want to pay for more cloud storage. I consulted with my brother that one of the geeks at Best Buy. And we decided this would work for what I wanted. And it has. I have my music, pictures spreadsheets and back on this drive and there is still more room. it is compact and if I didnt tell you it was there, you wouldn't know

Perfect size for our needs, reasonable price. capacity is perfect.

I think that Western Digital makes this external hard drive exclusively for Best Buy. It is a breeze to hook up and my Mac saw it immediately. Great drive. Great price.

It works well to store your important files. Comes with a power cable and a USB3 data cable, just plug in and copy stuff! I'll be buying more. Only negative I find is that it runs a little warm.

works great saved my pc from loss of documentation and photos

I ordered two of these hard drives. They have both worked great so far. I recently digitized all of my movies and TV shows that I had on disc and loaded all of my content onto them. I connected one directly to my TV and watch all of my content on it. The other serves as a backup hard drive. They are both relatively fast and responsive and they both serve my purpose very well. The first one I ordered had a faulty cable. My computer would not recognize the hard drive when I had it plugged into a USB 3.0 port. My computer would recognize it when I had it plugged into a USB 2.0. I did not want to deal with the return process so I went ahead and ordered a new cable. After we ring the new cable everything worked great. These hard drives run hot. Depending on how hard I'm working the drive it can get up to 60 degrees Celsius. These hard drives also run a little loud. I have a Western digital two terabyte green label hard drive that I bought years ago that runs much quieter. I would recommend these hard drives to anyone who needs a lot of storage or plans to digitalize all of their content as I did.

Wonderful so far. Large amount of storage, great price, WD quality. Only thing that surprise me was it needed the included software installed for the driver.

This item is great for storing data like family photos and videogame data.

Excellent accessory with my PS5. I can store all of my PS4 games to it and not have to switch between consoles. It not to loud and the PS5 seems to access the data from the drive rather quickly.

I'm a digital hoarder and can never have enough hard drive space. I’ll fill this up pretty quickly, but 8TB is a lot of space for most people, and it's nice to be able to add more capacity when the opportunity arises. Currently on "sale" for half price makes for a nice deal for the size being offered. The drive runs quite hot when you task it over longer periods, and it's moderately noisy, but I've seen and heard worse. Speeds are decent enough, but this will vary depending on what you're trying to do with it, which is typical of any drive. I don't hear the periodic clicking sound other reviewers have mentioned, and hard drives are NOT supposed to do that, so if you get one that does this, I'd return it, and others, as many times as needed until you get one that doesn't do this. The fact that some people are being told this sound is "normal" is laughable, although I suppose that depends on what your definition of normal is...I can only guess so that many of these drives were produced that had this defect, that it's considered the norm for its production; hence, it's "normal". Would I trust a hot running drive that makes clicking noises on a regular basis as my primary drive ...Absolutely Not!...And, only the future will tell if stands the test of time. But, I've had good success for the most part with WD drives in the past, and if you're just looking for a backup drive and/or extra storage space for relatively non-essential data such as games & movies, it's hard to find a size/price package that would be a better deal than this at this time. I do suggest making an effort to get some air moving in and around this drive however to help keep the temp down some.

Very plug and Play Easy to use Easy to set up No maintenance

It's a great value for the price and WD drives have always proven to be quite reliable. I still have 20+ year old WD drives that are still functional.

First off. The drives inside are WD Reds. If you don't know the significance of that, then stop reading, these drives aren't for you. If you do know what that means, you know that you're getting a $300 + drive for <200$. These drives work great in NASes ( what they're build for), and last years. I had 12x4TB reds in my NAS before (RAIDZ2), now I've got 12x8TB in RAIDZ2, with another 12 planned over the next 2-3 years. (In case you're wondering, I'm using 6 drives per vdev). Don't let the 5400rpm get you down, with 6 of these in a raidz2 vdev, I can easily push 600 MB + of traffic to these. when migrating my current NAS to the new NAS, I did a transfer using NFS over 10Gb, and was able to easily push half of that. NFS probably could've been tuned, and I was NOT using jumbo frames. Either way, you get a fantastic value for whatever price you pay for these, they'll last years.

The hard drive is working well although I have only had it for a short while so we shall see how it performs in the long run.

The 8 terabyte provides tons of storage and the Western Digital hard drive is very reliable. It doesn't have a fan so it would be wise to get a sub fan to connect to it to make sure it remains cool if you plan on using it for very long spans at a time.