Customer Ratings & Reviews

8TB for the price of 4TB (or 6), best value for money if you don't mind the old design

Easy to set up and operate. WD software included. Just plug and play! Store all you photos and movies in one place. Also create a backup to keep all your important files safe from any disaster. A good investment.

After using this external hard disk for 2 years, I can tell you that everything works fine. In fact, I brought 2 more of the WD EasyStore external hard disk and still loving it. Reliable, fast and ... just work.

Excellent product working perfect so fast a little bit noisy but everything fine

This is a good solution for backing up a computer or adding on for HTPC. Easy plug and play with lots of head room for a small library. Schedule automatic backup for important data.

Very quick and quiet. Download rate much faster that the previous Seagate I had.

I own several Western Digital drives. This 8TB high capacity model was reasonably priced and worth the investment. Plugged in and started backing up multiple drives with business info immediately using Time Machine on my MacBook Pro. Highly recommend!

good quality drive, simple setup. included software was junk but easy to remove.

These are great for my server and they seem for work without any issues. Inside they are all WD-white drives but they used to be WD-red. Other than the red/white label the only difference I can tell is the white drives have a bigger cache.

When it comes to reliable and long-lasting storage, you can count on WD. I don't work for them, but have always used drives from WD - for reliability they are king. My data is too valuable to trust some of the other brands on the market.

Customer support, which you WILL NEED, from WD is simply awful. It's a labyrinth of requests for documentation. Case files are assigned to new people/bots with every exchange. On the item side: the drive randomly fails. Specifically: without warning it will "decide" that it is read-only. You will loose work. You will have corrupted files. Re-mounting, unplugging, rebooting - if you like all of that, then by all means, this noisy turtle of an external drive is for you. If you want stability and reliability: go elsewhere.

Very good and comes with extra perks but can get noisy. All in all used as a backup drive and works perfect.

I am using this as just a backup of my data and it does what I wanted it for. I can store all of my data and still have plenty of room. When I was transferring data to the storage, I was getting around 30 to 50MB so it wasn't that fast, but good enough.

Was starting to get my 4tb full, this is a great upgrade since it took a couple of years to fill the 4tb version of this hard drive, so it will probably take a couple more years to fill this one, by then the next version or 2 will be out to reupgrade.

These are excellent hard drives, using nas grade hard drives within the enclosures, I have purchased 11 of these over the last couple of years, and every single one of them is rock solid, 100% health with zero bad clusters visible to SMART

Not eady for 5 stars as I've not used it heavily yet. However, setup was painless and, so far, zero issues.

Attached the drive via USB 3 to my video workstation to use an archive for finished video projects. Frees up space on my SSD internal drives. Could be faster for transferring, but I'm working with 20-100GB sets of files per project.

My husband needed this to expand the space on his ps4 and it works like a charm

Competitively priced 8TB external drive when on sale. I tested it within the enclosure for a week to make sure it worked. Then shucked it and installed it in my NAS and has been running with no problems since. I mainly use it for MKV movie storage. I use a different PC for ripping my movies and then transfer them to this drive and I consistently get 160MBs transfer speed, I have a 10Gb network between the 2 PCs and the originating drive is SSD. I also have a Seagate 8TB in the NAS which was shucked from an external Seagate enclosure and it runs just a little slower. **Be aware of the 3.3 voltage pin (PWDIS) on this drive when it is shucked, it is a fairly easy fix if you have an older PC. https://www.google.com/search?q=sata+3.3+volt+pin&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 ,,, or just do a search for 3.3 volt SATA pin

I bought this to replace a failed Seagate 8 TB external drive and so far it's working well. Wish I had gone ahead and purchased 2 since it was on sale! Time will tell whether this one outlasts the Seagate.