Customer Ratings & Reviews

Seems very reliable, a little slower than what I'm used to though

Great drive for the price when I bought it on the deal of the day. Haven't had any issues thus-far.

I buy these cause of the great price, I actually remove them from the enclosure and use them in a raid setup, they are perfect for that, never an issue

I have been blown away by the gigantic capacity and easy use of the WD 8TB external hard drive. It's like having your own server with capacity I can't imagine ever using up!

So I needed a external HDD to store some pictures and other documents that was clogging my SSD drive up. I see this baby with 8TB of disk space and think "why not?" I unboxed it, plugged it into power, plugged the USB cable into the HDD and the other in to my USB 3.0 slot (make sure you plug it into the blue USB slot to get the full speed of USB 3.0). No mess, no fuss, it was off to the races. Took about 20 minutes to move a TB of info from my SSD to the USB, but some of the files were rather large. I found it faster moving the same amount of space, but with smaller files. Anyway so far so good.

I've had this for two years now, and it's still working great. It's quiet enough that I don't hear it at all, and it's about two feet away from me.

It was a simple and clean purchase/transaction and the product is performing as I hoped. WD is a solid brand and this does nothing to alter that perspective. Thanks for providing such an enjoyable experience.

This came as a WD White Drive (Red with white label) for a lot less $$ than a WD Red from anywhere else. I've purchased about a dozen of these and none have had any issues!

I use this for storing video files. Plugged in in and was running immediately. Transfers quickly and can backup the computer to it also. Great deal

Absolutely amazing. I have a 256gb usb I used to back up my files, which would take about ~25-30 minutes. I did the same thing with this, and it finished copying everything in about 1 minute.

another HDD to add to the server. great value on any of the Easystores, whether it's the 8TB or 10TB have worked flawlessly in our server

It’s amazing that you can get an 8 TB drive now for so cheap and it is fast for the size and what I’m using it for which is for a back up I’m really happy that I was able to get this when I got it thanks Best Buy

Upgraded to a larger hard drive, when a older one began to fail and was able to retrieve the data files and move to the new WD external USB with ease.

I am using this to backup 2 synology nas boxes. Price was good it was easy to hook up and I know have a backup for both of my Nas units.

I purchased for my son because it was such a good deal. same price as a 4TB. Works well so far.

Bought this drive to help clear our 4K storage on our server. 8TB on sale for $169....I couldn't believe it. Great drive and saved us to get our workflow going again

Western digital makes the most reliable hard drive. I will only use Western digital for critical applications. This unit was easy to install as an 8 TB drive.

This was a last minute purchase but 8 TB for the price I couldn't pass up. It was easy to install and so far my son says its working great.

Slow and basic backup. Used as Apple MacBook Time Machine.

Easy set up product does exactly what it should, only wish they stated the speed of the drive.