Customer Ratings & Reviews

These drives work well for whole house PC backups.

I haven’t used it yet but have seen so many positive reviews everywhere. The price was excellent so I am very satisfied!

I always trust my external hard drives to be WD...

Good performance out of the box. So far the drive is working as expected and the price was lowest I have seen in awhile.

A good external hard drive. I really enjoy using it.

Works as described and have not checked what drive is internally.

Kinda big but its alot of storage, used for Xbox1 and lost almost a full tb with the "extra" stuff Microsoft puts on it

I needed this for a quick backup for a server, 8TB over USB was too slow even with USB 3, but the case pops right open and then I was able to connect the drive to a SATA controller on the machine and backup at SATA speeds. Then just as easily popped the drive back in the case. Decent drive, decent case, fair price.

The product is excellent, very good value for money

I had bought this product about a year ago and was so impressed, I bought another one. I edit a lot of photos and videos in 4k. This hard drive keeps up and you can't beat the price point.

Thsi product is surprisngly durable as i have dropped it a couple of times. But all the data is still there and the read write speeds were not affected.

Bought this hard drive as a backup for my system. I've had it for half a year now and I have no complaints. If you get this at a sale price which Best Buy sometimes has, this is a steel.

Really food price compare to other internal hdd. Some may say its not red label drive, but at this capacity you might expect its quality standard is consistent with red labels.

Ordered three 8TB easystores. Ran SeaTools full surface scans out of the box with no errors. Filled drives with random video, re-scanned, and again seatools came back with no errors. Solid drives so far.

I bought this to serve as a replacement for my backup disk, which was giving signs of imminent failure. Setup was quick and easy and I had it up and running in no time.

This is my 2nd easy store HD and the backup software doesn’t work automatically like my previous one. The setup is not plug & play like my previous one either.

Setup was easy as plug-n-play. Read/Write speed is quick. I wish there was easier to understand instructions on the individual settings and sharing options.

I was fully aware that the capacity labeled 8TB is not what you're getting. Having said that, why don't manufactures such as WD, Seagate and so on be more up front in their descriptions. The markets, meaning the Consumers have tolerated this and manufactures have continued with this misleading practices. On the technical sides from materials used, manufacturing process and programming, I can expect some tolerance. 8TB to 7.2TB, that's a good chunk of disk space that I paid but not getting. This was why I rated a 4 out of 5 stars. Now, for my reasons for selecting the 8TB WD external hard drive: Product reviews, quality of the product, price and company's track records. I owned many external hard drives from Western Digital, Seagate, Acomdata and some off brand. The Western Digital and Seagate have been the most reliable. Data that I have lost due to hard drives dying on me was worth more than the units I stored them in. With the two above mentioned external hard drive, I have more confidence and faith that it will perform it's intended purposes with time proven reliability.

This is good product. Easy to setup. Transfer rate is also fast

Excellent product. I was reading reviews and watching videos of people who say it is very difficult to connect to Mac. In my experience, I did not any problems at all. Works perfect after erasing the product with Disk Utility. Love it... One struggle is the speed.. not bad but it takes a bit long time to transfer large files. Again, not too bad :)