Customer Ratings & Reviews

I purchased this as part of a deal and am using it as an external storage. So far performance is great though a bit noisy at times especially when it starts. Copied a ton of pictures from other drives and it was really quick. Planning to open it and use the drive inside in a NAS.

I bought it because the internal drive on my computer died and I as running on my backup. This drive became my new backup and has been running flawlessly. Waiting for the stay at home order to expire to get the internal drive replaced.

In case you don't know ...shucking is removing the internal hard drive from the enclosure. Strangely, companies charge significantly more for a bare internal drive than they do for these external ones. May be due to the fact that they can use any drive they want inside. Or that their warranties are typically not as long. Either way, after shucking this drive with my fingers crossed for the 8TB Red (NAS) drive as many have found in theirs, I encountered the white label drive instead. Based on the info on the label it appears to be an HGST 8TB Helium Data center drive at 7200rpm w/256MB of cache. So I figured I'd give it a shot since I've had great luck with the HGST 4TB drives in my home server. So far so good. I didn't need to tape off the 3.3v pin, and it's every bit as fast as the 4TB drives I have had running for years. I'll probably pick up another, but this at least got my raid array (10e) completed for the time being. Plus I got a nice external enclosure to use with another drive I had laying around!

This is my 3rd WD Easystore. I have 24 TB total for my media server and they have all performed flawlessly.

Always a great product and very trustworthy drives.

This Best Buy easystore 8tb is like fantastic corn. I really love the value for the money and it’s easy to go nuts for a drive like this! This is the type of product there are raids for on Black Friday. Buy three or more and you can have a party.

Super price for a HUGE hard drive! Western Digital is and has been a solid brand that stands behind what they sell. I don't expect any problems but it is nice to know there will be someone there is issues arise.

Have been looking for additional storage for my Xbox 1 day 1. Have a 3tb already but no space, been looking for over a year for the right space and especially price...this nailed it...obviously I'll need more space unless the Xbox X comes with 12tb to start....excellent purchase

Picked this up when it was pretty wickedly on sale, after learning that inside these externals is a WD Red drive, meaning that I basically got an 8TB Red for much less than MSRP on those drives. I have it as a 4TB Time Machine and 4TB "extra storage" drive. No complaints.

product as expected. no noise, good performance. recommend it.

I've bought a few of these drives to use for video servers and for data backup. No on/off button to hit, the drive comes on when computer is on. The drives are very quiet - you can hear a slight hum if you listen up close but they're a very quiet drive overall.

This is the best deal in storage. It is simple to use and reliable.

If you want a lot of storage for a good price, this is the HD for you. The simple design has stayed the same for many years now, but as a simple, single drive unit, nothing fancy is needed. There's a larger 10 TB version available too.

1. CrystalDiskMark to check status of the disk. 2. WD Data LifeGuard to do a full write (erase) to the disk. 3. Windows to do a full format 4. WD Data LifeGuard to do a long self test 5. Re-Verify data in Crystal Disk Info to make sure during all that nothing went bad.

I have not been able to schedule a back up routine on this one yet . . . I had a similar one that I was able to set up a back up routine, however that one went bad within 14 months so had to replace it . . . Waiting for the Geeks to come out to help me get this on a back up schedule . . . Until I get it on a schedule I am not able to rate it for anything . . .

Great deal on the price extremely versatile to use both operating systems (iOS & Windows).

The WD Easy Store hard drive was justnthe ticketnto backup all of the items and documents on my iMac Desk Top Computer. I am an artist and photographer so saving and protecting images of my work is critical. This hard drive has performed above and beyond my expectations!

I had zero issue with the operations of this drive, worked flawlessly. It was just a bit, slow, for my desires. Sure was GREAT to see that 8TB showing up though, that is a TON (!!) of space. The slower speed though, totally expected by the way (just forgot exactly HOW slow it was going to be), I did return it. If you need large amounts of slow space no doubt this is a great drive. Just wasn't for me.

Bought to attach to my primary computer to serve as a way to off load important data no longer needed on internal drive. Plug and play, works seamlessly and quietly in the background. Very happy with dependability, etc.

Great external hard drive with great transfer speeds.