Customer Ratings & Reviews

easy to use, Very handy. works like charm. I like it

Just bought it because my computer hdd space is less. This external hdd helps me lot to carry my data to anywhere hasle free

This restores my faith in WD external drives. Although my old WD My Book 8TB was hot and noisy, I decided to take a chance when the easystore went on sale. Luckily, it is everything I want - cool, quiet and backs up my system smoothly. I also like its sleek lines. The two-toned look of My Book is just not for me. I withhold the fifth star because the easystore doesn't have WD Security (password protection with hardware encryption). It doesn't matter to me, but others may want that feature.

These are great drives. For several years the 8TB WD HDDs have been my basic workhorse for storage. I've got a dozen of them (remember for every active drive, you have to have another drive to back it up). I definitely recommended them.

My family and I always take a lot of pictures and videos. We used many flash drives to save all our memories, but our problem got solved when we bought this hard drive. Now we feel free to still taking more pictures and videos, and not to worry about the space in our devices.

Big space for my files, pictures and videos, great price

The WD 8 TB external harddrive is great. I have a 6 TB and an 8 TB external harddrive, and I alternate between then when I back up a minimum of twice a week. Then I keep both of them in a safe in my kitchen. There are two kinds of people: those who backup regularly and those who wish they had backed up.

I've been using WD hard drives for years. This hard drive had the white label drives and I shucked them to use in a 4 drive NAS. I also have two others still in the enclosures that I use for backing up the NAS system images. I'm waiting for these to go on sale again and use them for a DVR system I'm working on.

Contains a top of the line NAS hard drive which I have connected to a Media PC to store all our mkv/mp4's. Working great for several months. Able to saturate a gigabit LAN no problem. Is quiet but does have a periodic "tick" as others have said. Probably not good for a bedroom PC if you leave it on while trying to sleep.

Very nice unit. I'm not using it as a backup however, but instead for storing HD and 4K video which takes up an enormous amount of space on my other hard drives. Using this exclusively for my video frees up a lot of extra space on my smaller hard drives and computer hard drive. So far it works well and his fairly speedy.

Very nice drive, does exactly what it is supposed to do!

This external hard drive is pretty cool as it includes a RED drive. Its Western Digitals NAS drive with would last for a very long time. I wish they had the 5-Year Warranty but I guess as long as it works, you won't need it. Also, WD needs to start switching to USBC.

dealing with large graphic files, this little HD seems to handle the read / write, well. we always could use more speed, for its been great for the money!

i use this as a complete backup of data and files from my pc and it's working well still after 2 years. it's much faster than the external hard drives that get powered only by the USB port. it's less portable but it's great for backing up large amounts of files in less time

I wish the transfer speeds over USB was faster and used a normal USB C port instead of the funky micro b thing

Great drive and price was awesome. Hooked right up to Xbox and can now download free gold games. If you have an Xbox you need an external drive. This one has to have its own power supply and that’s ok since it lives with the console. Took less than 5 minutes and this thing was in service and having new games downloaded to it.

Not only does this back up your computer drives, movies and music but will also play back on a usb DVD player. Great item.

easy setup and pickup at the store. great price too!

Fantastic hard drive. Quick loads, easy to setup, no issues. Would highly recommend.

This gives me the space i needed. Easy set up on Mac