Customer Ratings & Reviews

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.

Only took a few minutes to reformat this drive for use with a Mac. Will use it as my time machine drive.

This is a great deal when discounted as compared to just bare bones 8TB drives, especially for a NAS! If you chuck the case and pull the drive out you will need a 4-pin molex to SATA power adapter for the drive to start up properly.

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.

Easy to install and works as described. Simple and large capacity.

So far I have been very happy with this hd. I ran some tests and found out I was lucky enough to get a thailand 8tb red hard drive with the larger cache size. I have been very happy with it's performance even running games on the drive.

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.

It’s working like a charm and I can retrieve my video from the hard drive with ease from my VMS. Thanks!!

8 Tb disk for a price that beats other disks, also the same dimensions as lower disks. Good value for money.

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

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.

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.

The drive has worked as well as other WD drives, which I believe are generally the best. The backup software today comes with it for Windows isn't that great. I use it but it is probably more trouble than it is worth. The external drive, 8TB, reliable, is good. I wish it came with better backup software since the main reason for me to have this is backups. But if you want to store media, photos, side, etc. It is great.

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.

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

This is a great drive for storing media. Transfer rate is solid and have not had one fail. Great product!

This is a great drive with tons of room. It does a lot of extra stuff automatically but I just went into setup and turned everything off, all the automatic cloud back up or whatever it was doing. I just want to copy files to it. Super easy to do, don't hesitate, great Drive.

I am using the WD Easystore to consolidate multiple smaller hard drives. It is an excellent choice. The drive itself was easy to format for my Mac. It comes with improved WD software that allows for easy management of multiple drives. I liked it so well, I bought two. The second is for backup.

Love how much I can put on this drive. Hopefully, it lasts longer than the warranty since I will be saving lots of videos on this drive. I switched to Western Digital from Seagate because Seagate 2TB died after less than 14 months and it was not under warranty anymore, so bye bye everything.

Was able to shuck and put in my NAS. No complaints here.