Customer Ratings & Reviews

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.

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

This hard drive works well. I bought it for my MacBook so if you are buying for your MacBook you will need to reformat. This isn't too hard, but you will need to know what you are doing.

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

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.

I purchased this sweater digital drive to back up my NAS. It does exactly what I expect, plug into my NAS via USB, it finds it and I can backup my data. The 8TB allows me to make multiple versions of backup. Now I can sleep soundly knowing 20 years of photos, music etc are backed up.

Quiet and fast at an unbelievable price. Easy to setup and format. Fast USB connection. No issues.

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

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

Best Buy sells two types of these WD 8TB USB 3.0 drives. This is a review of the more expensive one which I believe uses a WD Red drive. I am using this drive with a Windows 7 Pro system and the drive was recognized with no problems. I'm using it mainly for archiving large video files and the file transfer speed is nearly as fast as a hard drive connected through a SATA cable. The drive comes pre-formatted with an NTFS file system, so you don't have to format it; it's ready to go out of the box. It does come with software to facilitate using it as a backup drive but I haven't found a need for it. Unfortunately the drive does not have a power switch so you can't turn it off if you only need it for a few minutes and decide to eject the USB 3.0 device. I've been using it for about 3 months and have written about 2TB of data to it with no problems. Also, Best Buy usually has this item on sale so I would recommend checking their website regularly to get a good price.

Not much I can say, it's a HD and it works. Note that this is the Best Buy exclusive model, which has a shorter warranty (but should also have a lower cost). A lot of people open these up and basically get an internal hard drive, technically voiding the warranty anyway.

Don't bother with WD's software (other than Drive Utilities for adjusting the sleep timer). Internal drive (in my case) is a WD Red NAS drive with 256MB cache, so reliability should be good; wel'll see. Reasonably fast for a hard drive. Stays fairly cool. Drive has been plenty quiet.

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

I use Western Digital external drives to back up family pc's as well as cell phone pictures and video's. The USB 3.0 interface is very fast and with 8 TB of capacity you have lots of storage options. Best Buy consistently has the best pricing for this product, you can't go wrong!

I use a pair of these as additional external backups for my RAID Array in my desktop media server. I get good transfer rates and have had much better experience with reliability than previous generations of external drives which seemed to develop bad sectors regularly.

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!

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

Just love the plug and play!! Works great. I would not pay $300 any thing under 150 great price.