Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought this external hard drive on Black Friday when it was on sale and it was a tremendous amount of storage space for the money I paid for it. Always back-up your stuff, people!

WD products are simply that. I’m a backup phobe and even with cloud, I want redundancy. Drive is decent size, but hoping WD can take next steps soon for more capacity

I've come to trust these drives after purchasing several for my own use for for work use. I'm a video editor - so they get a LOT of use!

I bought it in January to replace a WD drive that was about 4 years old - my drives usually make it about 5 years or so. Got a MyBook and it died in 3 days. I shrugged with a "manufacturing defects happen" thought. I went to the store to return and repurchase and I noticed that this one was discounted... and was still WD - "the best brand out there" - so I jumped on it! Worked GREAT, so I budgeted to afford another full-price one at the 6-month mark, to have a mirror of this drive. At the 4 month mark it just... died. I was in the middle of reading a muti-TB file and... poof. It went very quiet, made a few clicks, then quiet... and that was the end of 6TB of my data going back to the late 90s. Thankfully I (mostly) have my previous drive's data, and some stuff in the cloud. The one thing I don't have anymore: confidence in Western Digital products. They bit me twice in a row so they're done accessing my wallet.

I just moved from 2 4TB to 2 8TB drives for my business workhorse and backup drives. These are easy to set up and use, and the WD tech support is good. They are working flawlessly.

Purchased when on sale. Great value. Shucked the drive to place in an 4 bay JBOD. Please note the drive utilizes the power disable feature (search on-line).

This drive has been very reliable. I use it to store and access large amounts of data for research projects and it fast and reliable.

This external drive works great for what I am using it for. The price was right at the time of purchase, it was cheaper than the 4TB drive that I was originally going to purchase.

I ended up breaking up the packaging and taking the drive out to put into my pc, for some reason at the time this one was cheaper than an internal. works great!

Western Digital always has been good for me. I tried another brand and it did not last as long as my other Western Digitals.

it works perfectly for my laptop. I'm a photographer and need as much storage space as possible. This definitely gets the job done, backing up everything...and then some.

This is the lowest price per terabyte storage solution I found. Ideal for write once read many (WORM). It's fast enough to do most of my archiving and streaming. There is a slight vibration whenever it is on, but as long as you put it in a stable spot it should be quiet because of the rubber feet.

Worst experience and purchase ever! Used once to upload pictures and after that it stopped working. I’ve tried everything they recommended, At first, I even bought a new laptop thinking my old one had an outdated software and that was the problem. Now WD is not responsible for the data recovery I’ve to pay to certain companies designated by WD in order to claim the warranty on the external storage device. Here is the worst… data recovery estimates goes from 700 to 1,500 depending on the complexity could go even higher. I’m not only loosing what I spent on WD piece of garbage, I lost the data or I’ve to spend a great amount of money because their product don’t do what it’s meant to do!

Amazing amount of storage for the price. Plug it in and go. Use it to backup laptop and desktop. Both files and a very large numbers of photos.

this is the 6st WD external hard drive I bought, trying to protect all my datas in my small company. Always easy to install, I will not change to something else at this price

So far so good. It’s my second easystore drive and this one has proved as “easy” as the last. We’ll see about longevity but my old one is going strong still two years later. XBox One immediately recognized and setup drive including formatting. Very please with purchase thus far.

Great External Hard Drive for almost all files, software, videos and photos. I store all of these on here (with backup to my NAS) as a single source for all my needs.

This had a WD White Label EDAZ air filled drive. I was skeptical of the temperatures since I heard the air drives ran hotter than the helium filled ones. When I tested it with WD DLG it did get hotter than my other drives but once I shucked it and put it in the server where there was better airflow it cooled right down. As of right now it is running the same temp as my 8TB EMAZ's and EFAX's, about 35C at idle. So far, so good.

Always like Western Digital hard drives this is the first one I've had you had to plug in but other than that it's great

Not a fan of the new systems or how they work, but this is a must and was a great deal. No need for the XBox branded.