Customer Ratings & Reviews

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

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!

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 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.

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

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

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 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!

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 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!

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.

you can use this for xbox one or ps4 great drive just wish it was ubs power go cowboys

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.

This is what I was looking for. The memory size for the best deal and not over paying.

Only one I use. Don't go cheaper on the other version. There's a reason why it's lower.

I purchased this external to put several of my other external drives onto one location. It works just great for this purpose. It is a full size drive so putting it into a safe place for security or fire protection might pose a bit of a challenge but I rate this highly.

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 have order 20 of these over the last year or so and I have yet to have one go bad. Each has been run through 2x preclear cycles (a process where the drive is checked for errors and each sector is written to and read from) and have had no issues. Great product.

I was looking for a way to consolidate data and photos from six desktoops, three tablets and a chromebook. The WD easystore with 8 GB was the most efficient and inexpensive solution I could find. It is easy to move between devices and BestBuy had the best price.

The one and only legendary Western Digital drive packing a WD RED 8TB NAS drive in it. It's got a 2 year warranty in it. Will you use that? HECK NO! You are going to crack this sucker open and use it for your NAS drive. There's a reason these drives fly off the shelves.