Customer Ratings & Reviews

At 8 TB there is plenty of room here to back up photos, movies, music, and any other files deemed important. Can be used on Windows, Mac, or Linux systems. Easy to shuck too if you want an affordable 8 TB drive for a NAS.

This external drive is a good GB to retail price purchase. Overall, it works great. The only con it has is that it gets hot. I had to cool it down by placing a laptop cooling fan under it. Other than this, it has no other drawbacks to it. If I ever have a need for more space, I would purchase another WD Easystore external drive again.

Love WD hard drives and have been using them for years. Love the form factor and doesn't take up space on my desk. Plug and play with plenty of storage space to last me for a while.

A great price point for an 8gb hard drive. I use this to archive my files. I don't know how well it works as an external. I took it a part and used it as an internal sata drive. It was cheaper to buy it this way, and I got an extra USB cable.

It is very small and compact. Although it is USB 3.0 my machine takes longer to fetch data from this drive than it does my 12 year old Iomega 1TB external drive. This is the first 8TB drive I have ever owned our used so I do not have anything to compare it to. I suspect all extra large drives move quite a bit more slowly in Window File Explorer.

I had to back up a 4 Drive Raid array to reuse those drives in a WD NAS Raid array. (Plex server). So I needed 16TB's above what I already had in hand to back up. All went well. These will probably be plugged in to the new NAS as USB additional drives.

This external hard drive is easy to set up and start using. It has quiet operation.

Got at good price!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!°°°°°°°°°°°!!!!!!

works great as expected. Took a bit of work to get formatted correctly for Mac & PC (exFat). but just needed to download quick formatting tool from WD and was all set. Support was great in helping out as well. Bought a second one that formatted without issue.

The easystore 8TB hard drive is a fast hard drive reaching 170MB/s when writing data to the disk. It's ideal to store large files such as 4K video files made by cameras or large photo files. The hard drive is plug and play so it's ready to go out of the box.

For plug and play is still confusing. Doesn't need to be.

This is truly a great hard drive from Westgate. I currently have three of them. I’ve got the 1st one now over a year and half. It’s been running I’d say every single day since I got it and it works perfectly

WD has gotten better. Years ago I used to avoid WD drives in general but since BB stopped carrying most other brands except WD in the local stores I've begun using them again and they seem to be pretty good now.

I purchased this for my wife to replace the 3 TB drive that she uses to back up her documents. Not only did I increase her backup storage, she no longer complains about how slow her backups are. She is really happy with the speed of the drive.

I was looking to purchase this for very large seismic data sets. I was prepared to buy one for its value and dependability but then realized it was on sale so I doubled down and bought two. Great product for those with large data swapping and back-up needs.

Very quiet external hard drive and seems to run quite cool despite the enclosure not having an internal fan. Since it is a Western Digital product, the WD freeware version of TruImage software works with it!

Western Digital drives are usually quality stuff. Too early to tell on quality, but the GB / $ on this unit is fantastic.

Made by Western Digital which I have used for years, but this was a new model so I was not sure when I purchased, but it worked great right out of the box and I use it every day since it arrived with no problems.

Keep in mind the warranty is voided if you do this, but it works as an internal drive as well. I broke open the case without an issue and plugged these into my server. I have had these for almost a year and no issues yet.

WD easy share is helping me to share all my files over network. Also I can store up to 7.5 tb files . Performance is avg