Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great data storage and backup option for the price.

Good external hard drive, however this is a large enough unit it requires external power.

Was afraid older NTFS might choke on 8gb partition but working fine. Good utilities also!

Bought. Opened. Confirmed - WD Red HDD inside. Nice. Wish it was an SSD for that price :)

Holds a lot of games still have 3 terabytes left..

A friend of mine told me that these external hard drives are easy to shuck so the physical disk can be used in a NAS or a desktop. Furthermore he told me that the enclosure can then be put back together with a different hard drive inside if you still want an external hard drive and have an appropriate HDD lying around. Despite having a DOA unit which had to be exchanged, I'm still happy with the purchase.

This is a fantastic hard drive, and the 8 TB of storage give plenty of room and options, whether it's used as extra storage, as a backup for your computers, laptops, or what-have-you, or as a super-huge photo album, this baby has the room!

Purchased this based on positive reviews. I exceeded my current hard drive (4tb) containing pictures and videos. I was originally looking at a 6tb drive but saw this one on sale and with a WD Red Drive inside. Normally, I don't like extremely large drives like this because I would need a backup of equivalent size and if a failure happens. That is a lot of data to recover. But for the price I'm willing to take a chance. Originally I was going to pop the drive out and put it in my desktop. But before that, I wanted to transfer all my files to the new drive. I was surprised how fast it copied everything (4 tb + 2tb). I was so impressed, I decided to keep it as an external drive. For my purposes it works fine. Right now it is a backup of two drives of photos and videos. Why mess with breaking it out and installing in the PC. So far no issues and I can keep the data isolated from the PC. Great value for the money.

This is my third WD product and again WD external disk drives never disappoint. Needed larger capacity external drive for daily uninterrupted backups. Best Buy had availability and good pricing.

I purchased this hard drive to increase my storage for my PS4. It installed and works flawlessly. I understand that the drive is a Red drive, which should provide a long life. The price could not be beat. Highly recommended, if you can get one on sale.

I used this to load all my PS4 games onto, about 327 of them. I have played about 30 to 40 hours off this drive and Ive had no issues. And I still have about 75% space left!

This is the best it is small with a lot of space. Downloaded all games still have space.

This is a great external drive and offers good reliability since it is externally powered, but be warned you do not get the full 8TB or storage advertised due to a partition hidden on the drive itself, most likely for its own processing. I am using this as a dual purpose drive, I have a 1TB partition for a backup (Using a 500 gig drive for the 0s) and the rest (roughly 7.75TB) for game and other file storage. The included backup software seems to work fine but there are certain file types that it cannot store and it does alert you of this which is nice. It backs up everything else and simply ignores what it cannot. All in all I really like it and would recommend it, but at its price I would wait for a sale before buying it, or if you can get away with a little less space get a lower capacity drive from the same series.

I have a ridiculous amount of music so I need serious storage. And until SSD prices come down, I'm sticking with external, spinning, hard drives. I've been burned by Seagate before so I tend to lean WD. And with 8 TB storage, this is just the thing for my library.

Great buy for the price, most external storage does give you the same bang for your buck

Looked at several different hard drives and sites before going with this one at Best Buy

In the past WD hard disks have been hit or miss. Some will last only a few months before having trouble powering on! However, this drive is very fast with data transfer, never disconnects from my computer and has tons of storage space.

These WD 8TB drives are great. You can use them as is with USB support. You can also easily remove the drive from the enclosure and place into a home NAS device. (Although it voids the warranty) - much cheaper than buying an 8TB bare. WD is a solid brand.

I have four of these guys shucked out of their cases and living in a four bay NAS for my Plex server. The price can't be beat when they're on sale. Bonus points: I've sold two of the cases and guts on that auction site. Nothing goes to waste.

I finally broke down and bought an external drive. This drive is quiet and looks good in my desk. It's a little overpriced, but if you can find it on sale, then it's worth buying. At 8tb, this drive holds almost every 1 and 0 that I downloaded the last 8 months via Comcast (they only allow for 1TB). So this 8tb drive is bigger than Comcast!