Customer Ratings & Reviews

As I recall, WD still puts their red-series hard drives in these external enclosures and uses non-SMR for sizes above 6TB. If you want to get a replacement drive for a NAS or just local RAID array, definitely make sure you don’t get an SMR drive. They are terrible performers in RAID arrays and will only cause you issues. Purchasing these 8+ TB external hard drives is one of the most economical ways to get your hands on some of Western Digital’s best NAS and RAID drives. If you would like to purchase this hard drive to replace a drive in an existing array, fear not, for it uses CMR and will be fine for really any of your uses. If you plan to use this as an external drive, you should be fine regardless of the size you purchase since the difference between CMR and SMR should be negligible when the drive is used on its own.

Very fast drive when connected to a USB 3.0.. Very easy to setup and use. Very quite when being used.

Got it when it went on sale. It's a keeper. Hopefully by the time I run out of space again a 16TB will be out and at the same price as this one

Tried the 10TB to only realize that it would not take anything above 8tb and got this for my console instead. So easy to set up and not too slow for updates and way cheaper than an SSD. Definitely recommend!

Love this drive & on sales it's even better. Works great & now I can have them mirror each other. Haven't shucked one yet but may since the drive inside costs more normally than this external drive. Very happy & would buy it/them again........might the next time they go on sale.

This 8tb drive is working perfect. Its set to back automatically.

Bought this HD on sale for $160 to store movies for a media server. Confirmed a WD80EFAX in a Made In Thailand unit, 7SGX9***. For those that don't know, that is a WD Red 8TB that usually runs for $260 put in an external HD package. Bought this unit off the shelf 02/18/2018. Great buy.

This is my 2nd purchase and so far I'm loving it , the speeds are accurate, the design could of been better, it's not loud , this is my 37th hard drive so I'm pretty addictive to storage.

Drive works perfectly fine to back up files from desktop.

I purchased this drive after filling up my 4TB external drive storage for PS4. Since PS4 only reads one external drive at a time it took me 4 days to completely transfer all files to this external drive. So far there hasn't been any issue with it. I also have a 10Tb and a 6TB hard drive for Xbox One of the same brand. I definitely recommend these drives for console storage. I've also experienced weather power outages a few times and these hard drives didn't fry or become unreadable for improperly shutting down. Good value when you catch them on sale.

I mean it's a hard drive it works great I haven't had any problems it's not loud or anything works great 100% in my book and I got a good deal on it I got it on sale

I got mine for 150, got one for all my devices so you could say I recommend them. But I will point out that I am unsure if they stand the test of time as it is new and storage wears out over time but how much time does remain to be seen. But overall for the price I couldn't pass this up.

got this on black friday for 129.99.....best deal around by far. and WD is always my brand of choice

Got this external hard drive when it was on sale. Great price for a large amount of storage. It's not the quickest but but it's 8TB. I love it. I've been successful with WD. Seagate is the only drive that failed me within a couple of years without alot of usage. WD is more reliable.

with 4k and bigger file photos. im eating through hard drive like crazy. good thing hard drive prices are also going down. im not sure how long this specific hard drive will last but, I have the same WD drives that I have had for over 8 years and still working.

Works perfectly. 210 MB/s read and write. Works with my PS5.

I bought this same external hard drive 2 years ago and it worked flawlessly. So I bought it again. I've had on issue with this drive. No corrupted files of any kind. I highly recommend it for those who have a lot of videos to save.

easy to use and reliable and does the job! Good external hard drive!

Great for the mass storage needs. I use it for backing up all my media. I have a second one to back up all my games from game pass on my xbox. Works great and I only have to download my games once and put them on each xbox

The hard drive itself is good but just know that these higher storage drives are louder so you will hear it running. I tested this on a ps5 and can confirm that it does work. Overall it's good if you don't mind the drive being noisy.