Customer Ratings & Reviews

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

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.

This is a life saver a must have . I just wish you was able to view files from the cloud.

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.

Bought this to save all my videos and pictures from my cameras. Transfer was fast and it was easy to install on my mcbook. Great purchase!

good large capacity for backup VM and PC images and setup is really quick basically just plug, power up then play.

A big solid high capacity drive. It uses an external power supply and is the size of a very large paperback book, so it takes up space, but is reasonable fast and quite. It has a lot of room for storage and can be used as a drive or you can use the auto-backup software included (I didn't)/ So far, no problems.

I bought this to 'shuck' it so I could use it in my NAS. While the drive does work fine for this, you need to know a couple things. First of all I did not get a WD Red, the one I have has a white label. These are becoming more common. The cache on mine is 256MB, but 128MB cache is also becoming more common. Second of all, these drives may not work with your power supply. If you read up on these white-label drives, you will see that you may either need to apply tape to some of the pins on the power connector or use a IDE to SATA converter to power it, otherwise it will not work correctly. It's still good for it's price, I'm just disappointed they don't use Reds like they used to.

This is an excellent hard drive that is easy to use. The only problem I had was at initial installation. Performance of the system was poor, the bluetooth connectivity was seriously impacted, the keyboard basically not working. Not much help looking around; however, one article indicated there was a Windows version and an Apple version: maybe I got the Apple version. A quick formatting of the drive took care of the performance issues. Backup works well and because I use the drive primarily for backing up, I uninstalled the other 2 programs Overall it is a dependable device.

Nice backup has a lot of storage space just a little loud and slow to respond

This hard drive comes on sale regularly for 150 bucks. Wait for that sale, and you will never regret buying this. The 4tb version I believe goes on sale from 300 to 70 bucks? So worth it.

This external hard drive performs excellent. Feel secure having it on all the time when connected to my computer. It is compact and does not interfere with other attachments.

Great extra storage. Can be a little loud. I'm very happy.

Excellent seller Thanks for fast and accurate shipping

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 :)

Bought this to backup media files and movies to clear space on my main harddrive.. it's got plenty of space and with the USB 3.0 connector i can transfer huge quantities of files in no time...

It's user-friendly, 3.0 fast & so much room to upload & download worry free of using up all the room with its 8TBs with a sleek exterior. I love it!

I purchased this hard drive for an external drive for my PS4. It works great! The games transferred over to the hard drive without any issues.

This hard drive was a great deal when I bought it. I love Western Digital and this hard drive works as expected.