Customer Ratings & Reviews

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.

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

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

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'm using this drive to run a Plex server connected to Ubuntu. Drive is adequately fast for streaming HD video. Have been running it pretty hard for a few weeks now and the drive has been solid, no complaints.

Seamless storage addition, ideal for archiving and backups. The 8tb of space holds quite a lot of data. WD software makes it easy to tweak things, such as turning off indicator lights.

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.

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.

super simple to use and no time consuming setup required. you just plug it in and it works. check to see if your model comes from Thailand. If it does, you're in luck as this is the 256MB cache version which makes it the desirable one.

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

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

Got this to store tons of pics and videos. Very fast and depndable

I picked this up during a sale where it was discounted over 50%! This drive will soon be connected to my network and serving up my entire library of 500+ DVD/Blu-ray titles. Terrific value for this enormous and versatile hard disk.

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.

Lots of storage for a good price. Heres a little something....inside of these enclosures you'll find WD RED drives which are of a very high pedigree. Suffice to say these drives are built like a tank and will provide years of service.

I bought this as a birthday gift for my Mom. She needed this to consolidate all her tiny hard drives into one hard drive and this did the trick. Plug and Play and transferring were a charm.

I have standardized on Western Digital drives and this was a deal on Best Buy so I got it for the 8TB storage. I will use Acronix to make auto backups of my two WD drives on my pc. I have an older 1TB WD NAS and that is too complex. This one is a simple, external drive that shows up on my folder index in Windows Explorer. It is also USB 3.0 which is very fast.

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.

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.

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