Customer Ratings & Reviews

Haven't had to use it yet. Plans are to save church services on it. Cannot rate it better until we use it.

I was able to easily disassemble and remove the drive so I could install it as an internal drive on my desktop. Much cheaper than buying the same hard drive as a bare drive.

Working great with PS4! Fast loading and solid construction

My last couple of hard drives have been from Seagate because WD has let me down before but the price was too good to pass up. This product was extremely easy to use and faster than expected.

Top quality as always with Western Digital. Excellent speeds.

Tons of backup space for photos and music and whatever. Plus, and more importantly, it's fast. I've run it as a network drive and as a USB drive directly attached to a PC. In both configurations, I get good read and write speeds. 8 TB is a lot of space. Can't beat it for speed and storage.

These are pretty inexpensive any more. The world is moving to SSD (Like me) but this is 8TB and if I wanted that in an SSD I would need a 3rd mortgage. I have 4 of these and I use them for storage. Not for constant real time access. They can be attached and always "on", but if you don't do a file access for a few minutes the platters stop spinning and it takes ~15 seconds to "wake up." That is FOREVER so I avoid it. That Sleeping may also be the software controls on my computer rather than the drive itself, but it is still a real time lag. There are work arounds (batch files etc) to keep your drive "live", but they would seem to tax the turn tables. So, I often copy the section I am working with to a local SSD drive, make my edits and then save back to this kind of spinning disc archive.

One of the few faster external USB drives at a bargain price.

Great amount of storage for the price. I use it as a back up drive and have not had any issues

Just needed to upgrade my memory from 4TB. WD has always been a good product and this is no different.

I bought 2 of these and they had WD80EDAZ in them. Some people online saysthey run hot and is actually 7200rpm rather than 5400rpm.

Bought a bunch of these drives for a really good price. Was able to pull from the enclosure and put them in a NAS enclosure. They were ALL Western Digital Red Drives 5400RPM with 256MB Cache.

Set up was easy but I haven’t begun using it as add a title?yet.

I was actually looking for an internal hard drive when I stumbled on this. I did research and found that I was able to shuck it (open the plastic shell) and get a brand new 8tb hard drive. I believe I purchased this item for $150 and it is one of the best storage per dollar I have invested.

My household includes one member who is an avid photographer and another with a massive mp3 collection. I was running out of hard drive space for backups. This 8tb drive provided the space I needed to safely store backup system images for 10 different computers in my home. Only negative is the USB interface is slower than I expected during large file transfers. There is no power on/off switch.

... at a very reasonable price. Does not have the security features the other two WD external drive series have, but that was not a critical factor for me. I’m very pleased with the drive.

Great product. Works as advertised. Use as my main backup drive.

Excellent I am enjying the way it is working and it met my needs

Not sure what to say. It does exactly what it claims, with no issues and no fuss. No reason to worry.

Got it for a great deal and shucked it. Decent hard drive expansion