Customer Ratings & Reviews

Portable, durable and not too heavy. Fits perfectly in confined spaces.

I have four external drives for my wifes many terrabytes of photos and all are used as Backup drives with one as a primary library. I have been fortunate with all of the drives and needed one additional for a full backup of her Mac. Many of the reviews on this particular drive mentioned noise as an issue. I have never had this with my other WD's so gave this a chance as the price for an 8tb drive was simply too good to not try. Fortunately I have after a month encountered no issues and the drive has not exhibited any of the negatives others have experienced. A bit warm but nothing extraordinary. Easy to format to Mac Journaled OS. Full time Machine back up took 3 days due to the volume of raw photos but once complete all is good and Time Machine backing up with no problems bouncing between two drives. Well worth the price and yes the drive has the Reds. At this price It would be worth buying two.I suggest you Copy the WD included software to a separate file just in case you may want it later as It is gone after formmating.

I hate having to plug it into power but it does what I need it to do

I was rapidly running out of storage for photos and videos, and purchased this WD 8GB external HDD when it went on sale. Very easy to set up and use with Windows 10. Not the fastest drive in the world, but good for storage of less frequently used files.

WD Easystore 8TB provides plenty of space to store all data into a safe one bank. It takes only a few hours to back up all my data from two laptop without any problem or hitch. The software is very easy to follow and with one click the backup process commences automatically.

Decent storage, great price during sales however 2021 has had quite a strong price increase

Nice having a big easy to use external drive where I can copy over all my files. Not using the WD backup software and don't really plan to. Not a drive I keep connected all the time, just when copying my media and other files. Easy to plug and play movies through my TV too.

Have now bought two for use in Unraid (one as parity). Both were white label drives. They've performed flawlessly up to now. Depending whether they're on sale, probably the best price per TB of any drive of its size. Will probably buy more of them.

purchased as a backup to my computer and laptop carries everything that i need and then some drive is actually a WD Red so it has great performance and great durability. would definitely recommend to anyone that wants a drive for a similar reason.

This drive seems to be really nice. I did have some issues getting the software setup and there might be a connectivity issue. It could just be related to my unit so I will probably try an exchange.

Needing this for back up of my computers. This is my secondary back up and so far it has been working great!

Stable, Reliable -- no problems so far. Bought it on sale so the price per gb is awesome. Fast enough for my needs.

I bought 6 recently. 4 were the WD rebranded reds. The other 2 are enterprise grade drives that get hotter than the other 4. Otherwise, great drives.

I use this drive for backup and in music production. Works flawlessly and easily, especially with a good backup software. I use Acronis backup software, and between this drive and the software finally have a reliable, easy to use backup solution that I can configure as I want. No Time Machine!

Great external drives, fast, quiet, low power usage.

I was able to shuck the drive out of the cash and use it in my NAS with no issues. Shucking the first one takes a while to get used to after that, it became like clockwork knowing where the notches are.

I got this for my unraid server and it has been great I did have to fix the 3.3v pin that shuts it down as I am using an old power supply but other than that it has ran great in server. however im not sure how anyone has the patience to shuck it without damaging the the case.

Easy to set up and great value for money. Another solid product from WD.

Have several of these for 2 years and they've all been working great so far. Make sure to back-up your data on at *least* 2 other drives!! Watch out for them to go on sale, which seems to be at least once every couple months.

This was the first one I bought for my son. He already owned one. Bought another one in 2020. He shoots and edits a lot of video so needs a large amount of storage space. He's happy with the three that he owns.