Customer Ratings & Reviews

I use this for my Plex library and it really works as intended. Really helps me expand my storage and works just as good as any 5400RPM HD should. If you need more space I recommend to wait until this goes on sale.

I was amazed at how fast I filled up a 4TB drive so time to upgrade. This 8TB external is just a beast. WD Red under the hood. Just perfect for a 24x7 setup. Getting it on sale, for less than the bare drive, was most excellent!

Better speeds than my older WD drive. Great drive. Would buy again.

Needed to back up personal files from a laptop and also my personal desk top computer. Lots of pictures so needed lots of storage. 4TB would have been enough but it was just a few dollars more to get 8TB. Backup software worked fine.

Needed for mass storage of my pictures etc for my genealogy project

Better speeds than my older WD drive. Great drive. Would buy again.

Plenty of space and at a nice price. A great bargain.

Great storage device. Easy to use. Good build quality. Recommended.

This is a good hard drive if you are looking for a good drive to store your picture/music/documents etc. One thing I did notice was that since I have a MAC, the drive needed to be formatted to work for MACs. There are no instructions for this in the box. Had to look online. The device is capable of it, just have to do a little work to get it set up.

I purchased this as a gift and wish I had purchased a dozen. The following week the price shot up by more than $50... I'll wait for the next one.

I bought a pair that im using for media storage for my plex server. The USB 3.0 is fast enough to direct stream everything with no hiccups on my tv. Im also using another one for a backup and so far seems to work good.

You can't buy an in the box 8TB drive for this price so I bought this one (3rd one) and shucked it. Installed it in my desktop for additional storage. It wasn't the red drive but the white. Works great.

The WD easystore 8TB external hard drive worked well. It is slower than expected.

Easy to use and reliable. I use this to back up all my important folders, photos and music. I then put it into my safety deposit box at the bank so I am not in fear of losing any of my important folder as ever.

I have several of these drives. After installing this one and moving nearly 4TB of data onto it, my computer would no longer recognize it. I was able to get it to work long enough on another computer to copy the data back off and return the drive to Best Buy for replacement. The new drive works great, as have all the other WD drives I’ve bought over the years.

I had another WD easystore but it got old and wasn't operating properly, well I've had it for years, so naturally I was happy to find this upgraded model and so far I am happy with it.

This is a great drive inside a solid enclosure with excellent performance. I recommend these to all my friends and family for long term storage. I am looking forward to upgrading to the 10TB version in my NAS very soon.

Got it after black friday. Could not pass on a 8tb drive for $150.

Western Digital external hard drive have always work great for me.

Smooth import of files, fast retreival of files. Ie Music & Videos