Customer Ratings & Reviews

Bought this for my ps5 because of the limited hard drive space. Hopefully it will do the job since I have a drive on my ps4 already

Lots of storage for my photography hobby. Very Easy to transfer files. Great price

Works like a charm. This is my second one, the first one I have for 4+ years and still go strong.

decent value of storage for the $, the speed of the drive 5400 RPM so does not retrieve data as quickly but considering the amount of space and reliability of WD drives, it is a good buy.

A great storage drive for holding digital movies or music. I've never had a problem with western digital and many problems with Seagate drives.

The value of this enormous hard drive is much greater than it's actual cost, which is just over $100. If it performs reliably I belive it to be a great investment.

the internal storage have more value than the external. I bought two for my NAS. It's running smooth

I set up this drive to automatically sync with my computer to store edited photos. I also use it to backup raw photos from SD cards. It runs in the background and does what it's supposed to do. One thing a had to do, because I live in a dry and dusty area, is make a filter from a sheet of computer fan, foam filter material and wrapped it around the vented edges of the drive. Helps to keep dust and pet hair out of it.

No problems so far, works as advertised, just plug and play. Working right out of the box.

I purchased this HDD as a means to backup my current PC contents. This WD Drive contains their WD software that you could use to backup as well. Works as intended and so far, so good.

I waited until it was on sale and have only used it for two weeks. So far, so good. It is large enough to backup my mac and windows drives. Only time will tell, how long it will last.

Very easy to set up and use. Love the tons of storage space. I don't use for video games so can give no opinion on that usage. Transferring files and doing backups is very quick. When reading reviews in determining whether to purchase or not, many reviews complained about the noise the unit makes. I have not noticed and noise coming from the unit and it is running most of the time and is located in close proximity to me.

This is an incredibly large hard drive - 8 terabytes. There is enough room to store everything you want to keep, music, pictures,videos, documents. Get an SSD for your operating system and one of these for your files and you'll have both speed and capacity for all those things you want to keep handy. It has a two year warranty as well. Great for backups too.

WD is the best bargain for external storage at an amazing price. Cant beat it. Easy Setup and use.

I shucked and I shucked.. the white drives inside were like pearls in an oyster. Granted they're not the highest quality pearls. 5400rpm and still need that tape over the 3rd pin (see youtube if you don't know what i'm talking about). But overall, the 5400rpm drives were supposed to better if you have a RAID 5, 6, or 10 NAS setup. Less heat = longer lasting drives.

This WD storage is really amazing. It is not only huge space, fast and nice looking as well

WD 8 tb external hard drive is a great drive . A Lott of storage and secure. The price is very good

I have not had it long enough to know how long it will last, but plan to put it to rigorous testing. The internal drive says WD RED like other NAS drives, but the PCB and lack of breather hole indicate that the drive is likely helium-filled ( hitachi ) technology. The PCB looks like Hitachi PCBs.

2nd WD easystore as 1st one failed to perform as could not retrieve data

Good sequential speed at 150-200MB/s for copying large files but it seems like the controller adds latency to seeks, making small file copying slower than an internal drive. Overall good value and not too hot or loud.