Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great reliable hard drive that runs cool and quiet.

So far this drive has worked as advertised and set up easily.

Seems durable and easy to use. Replacing our cloud starve system

Price per gb is great. I bought it to store movies and I have no complaints.

Was able to download all my games and play them on my PS5 very fast load time

I used this for my pictures and videos so I don’t have to storage it in the hard drive of the computer. My laptop is not an expensive one, so if you put a lot of information and data it gets slow. Now I have a lot of storage for pics and video and other data. Love this product.

Very reliable and very easy to use would recommend

Having owned this product for over 2 years now, it still works the same as the first day even through daily use. My media server is hosted on this drive for my movies and television and music libraries, still going strong.

This is my second WD external drive and I do recommended to have two external drives; one as a back up of the other external drive. I took this desition after a friend lost her kids photos (since new born to kindergarden) that she had on her PC's drive that got broken and she sent to a special service trying to save the photos but unsuccesful to recover them. WD is a very thrustable brand since I got two drives and the oldest is from 5 years ago and still working without any troubles.

Work great and is pretty fast on USB3. I just wish it also came with a USB-C cable.

I use it as a Media Storage. Works great right out of the box. Mine was made in Thailand and had a WD80EFAX red drive in it. The WD80EFAX supposedly has a 256MB cache as compared to the WD80EFZX which has a 128MB cache and is made in China.You can remove the HDD and use it as an internal drive. Just took the case apart and you got a great WD Red hardrive out of it. The drive is super quiet, you won't even hear it running. Plenty of storage and good transfer rate - very nice drive.

Shucked from external case after running WD diagnostics as external drive. Then ran unRAID PreClear successfully and installed in unRAID Server for storage drive. Works fine so far. Good Hard Drive- temps OK

Huge storage for the price. Hooked it up and everything transferred easily.

Easy to pull out the drive - white labeled WD drive. Works great in a Synology NAS.

Large back up storage capacity, easy to use software!

This product has lots of storage at a great price.

This was purchased to replace a 4 TB WD external drive that has filled up flawlessly. This 8 TB connected to the XBOX 1 along with the 4 TB and has been working perfectly as I expect from WD. We also own a 5 TB that has been used for over a year on another XBOX 1 and it has been perfect. Excellent buy!

WD has always been my go to company for any HD needs. They have the lowest failure rate and been dependable. Great buy

Had a 2 TB drive and was getting full so saw this on sale, picked it up and had been working fine so far. Does take a bit when you first start up the ps4 to sort things out but there is a lot of space to run through

Overall 4.5 of 5 stars. The product itself is great. I bought a 2TB portable set up for Mac, which worked right out of the box, but since this specific 8TB is a product for Mac OR Microsoft, it wasn’t preset for Mac. I have no issues with the product, just had an extra 30-60 minutes of trying to find what was needed to properly change the settings to work with my Mac. A little googling worked, but wish WD had better instructions and an easier / clearer manual/faq section. Overall, great buy !