Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great harddrive. Easy to set up and has lots of space on it. Would recommend to anyone.

This USB drive is not the first drive of this make and model for me. I purchased it again because past experience gave me confidence that the additional one would work as expected. It did. I did not give a durability rating since none of these drives have been in service with me long enough for a meaningful rating, yet. On the other hand, all drives continue operating without failure or difficulties - as expected.

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.

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

Bought this to back up my computer and I feel you get a real bang for your buck with this product. Smooth, simple, not to clunky, perfect for home use

This thing is huge and very fast. If only it was a little less expensive, but no complaints. I paid for it and it's worked perfectly.

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.

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.

Superfast delivery by Bestbuy. Order was delivered in 3 hours! Amazing!! Product works great and is faster than my older Seagate 8TB.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I love these drives! Very reliable, fast transfer speeds. I bought 2 a few months ago. One for backup of documents etc.and the other connected to my router for local document/media sharing. I have a 3rd from a few years ago that is still going strong. I use specifically for backup of my family’s laptop images. All 3 are 8tb and going strong!

The hard disk is fast. It is formatted with NTFS, to use it with Mac, you have to reformat it; however, there is some challenge to reformat it with latest Mac OS (High Sierra version 10.13.2), follow as current WD website instruction to reformat for Mac OS won't work. ( WD may update their docmentation later). It always resumes error as "MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation."; this is due to EFI partition < 200MB. To fix the issue you have to use dd command line command to fix the issue ( Google the MediaKit error message then you will find the solution online ). For this reformatting issue, I gave it a 3 points.

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

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

Price was good at the time. And setup is easy. Would recommend to increase the memory for the Xbox.

Using as external drive for Playstation 4 (and 5, if I can ever find one at MSRP). Easy to install and transfer speeds are excellent.