Customer Ratings & Reviews

Drive is quiet, runs cool, and has high capacity. Performance is very good, especially considering it runs at 5400 RPM.

Tons of room. Works well and data transfer is fast.

It's nice to be able to use 8TB at this price point. Moreover, even if the hard disk in this model is WD 8TB RED.

For the price this is an excellent hard drive. Lots of space and very easy to format. So far so good.

Amazing amount of storage and not too big either works for all my game systems.

My husband is OCD with photos and has a dozen of these with family pics stashed all around

i format and go, trouble free external hard drives. has regular hard drive speeds.

It's a great hard drive and has plenty of capacity.

This would be a easy 5 star but there are some things that essentially take it out of the "perfect" for me. Couple things in my experience with this device. One would be the plug ins, as this device sits on my desk, I don't use it that often other then just to store files on so I don't have it plugged in, and for me personally I think about how many times I will have to re plug over the course of owning this item and think the plugs will end up breaking before the device does. My only solution is to keep the power cord and the usb cord attached to the unit, so I have to keep the power cord and the usb cable attached to the back at all times until needing to use. I have to mention when I first tried to plug in the usb to the back of this unit it was scary because of the force needed to plug the usb piece in, I thought "wow, am I going to break the plug". The second thing why this isn't perfect is because the WD easystore is not a plug and play device, meaning you can't plug it into usb any time to access the hard drive, it needs to boot up with the computer, so instead of just plugging it into the usb you have to shutdown the computer, plug it in, start the computer. For some reason I had the impression this was a plug and play and not a boot up device, and this information hadn't been apparent when purchased. speed, I do love the fact of the "sleep"-"standby" so it will wake up when you access it instead of running continuously when not used, but does need to spin up from sleep mode and does take the "8" seconds. As far as the transfer rate, my personal experience is that it is mildly slow for ME, Windows file transfer moves the files at 22MBPS tops, about 1GB per minute (unverified data) so 2-5GB worth of stuff does take 2-5 minutes. This is a great item and I highly recommend it to someone that needs a storage device, it comes preformatted for windows(10) so you can use it right out of the package just copy and paste or cut and paste and drop the files you want directly onto it. size appears larger then actual, it's the size of a normal hard drive with a hard shell around it about 7"x6"x3". Only used on Windows 10, I have read that Mac users need to format before using and have trouble doing so. When you buy this make sure that it is wrapped in cellophane if purchased BRAND NEW!! As a back up I wanted to buy a second 8TB, waited until it was deal of the day at $119.99, but purchased from Best-Buy On ebay (it came sealed with 2 stickers=Used/refurbished), well the best buy customer service told me that the sales through the ebay store is a separate affiliate/entity and they couldn't do anything for me. Great value at only $17.50 per TB, wish I could have kept the second one

Good capacity for the money. Would purchase again.

Love it I want to use it for movie and tv storage. I am in the process of migrating my entire video collection well see if it all fits

wd has ben making good reliable hardrives for pc and mac which i think is better then seagate and cheaper too this hardrive with easy backup software and is compatible with apple time machine back up software

Bought two of these for use in my unRaid server. They had WD Reds inside and were easy to get out. Fantastic drives!!

8 gig for so cheap... I've got 3 and this was the largest capacity and cheapest price amazing

Perfect for personal back up Enough storage Easy set up Price matching really helps

Faster transfer speeds than I expected. It can be a bit noisey in a completely quiet house, but luckily I don't have a completely quiet home to often!

Awesome capacity - 8 TB! Additionally, it had WD Red inside, so high quality NAS grade HDD for higher reliability.

Typical Western Digital quality. Using it in our streaming/Twitch/Facebook gaming business to store the most exciting and worthwhile games.

WD - easystore® 8TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black big size hdd good price usb 3.0 fast speed WD Hdd

I bought two of these hard drives form Macs. They are working now and seem to be great. The only issue I had on both units was formatting the drives. Both had problems and I had to recover them from other drives to make them usable. So basically they should be made easier to format but once done seem to work fine.