Customer Ratings & Reviews

I've owned a few of these and they've always been good drives. This one in particular includes a WD Red NAS drive which is better quality than the standard drive. Handles vibration and heat better.

These always perform well for me and last a good long while. Man of them have the WD red drives as well. Check with smartctl of the like to confirm yours.

PCWorld advises the avg 2-hour movie takes up about 5 GB space at 1080p, making this monster drive able to hold 160 high definition movies. Pretty impressive!

Great price for a good drive. Even though these now come with WD white label, they're still WD Red drives. The big difference is that the SATA power connector has been updated to the newest spec. If you're running a NAS and you shuck one of these and plop it in, you shouldn't have any issues. However, if you plan on putting a bare drive in your PC, be aware that most power supplies still use the old standard which outputs 5v power on the yellow line. This causes the drive to constantly restart itself as the new standard calls out this as a restart pin. The easiest fix is to remove the yellow line from your power connector used to plug the drive in and you'll be good to go.

After losing a considerable amount of data a couple years back I have decided to have redundant backups this 8tb drive is great for my offline backup.

What can you say Western Digital. They put out one of the best hard drives on the market especially the Reds that came inside the 8 terabyte USB external drive. I ended up buying 4 for a new nas setup

This is a great external hard drive for everything you need to backup.I been using it to backup photos,music,movies important documents.I really is the best way to store your memory’s Nuff said

I picked this drive up when it was on sale a while back, and I think it was worth the money for the storage it provides. I only use it for media for my Plex server. Luckily it's not in a room that I go in very often, because the power plug has a noticable high-pitched while. That's the only reason I took one star away.

I love the amount of space this provides me. As a pro Photographer I back up all my work to external drives. With the 8TB device I will not have to worry about running out of space for awhile.

I purchased this drive as I needed a new backup drive. It's a fantastic piece of tech and internally it contains a WD Red drive which is designed for Nas usage. Red drives have a 100,000 hour MTBF rating, which these drives may possibly not reach, which may be the reason WD is selling them as external drives. However I'm using it as an external drive and it does everything I need with up to 150 MB/s transfer rates. Remember drives are marked with 1,000 GB per TB while Windows uses base 2 counting for space so it'll report 7.2 Gb approximately of storage. You are getting 8,000 Gb of space, just not a true 8TB of space. All HDD have this discrepancy between Windows and marketing shorthand.

A whole lot of space for a whole lot of stuff. I have had no problems whatsoever with this hard drive and has no compatibility issues. Awesome hard drive!

Works perfectly, straight out of the box. Decent length of power and USB cords. This holds so much that I was able to transfer 4 other drives onto it and still have a bunch of room to grow. (windows)

I've been using this hard drive with my PS4 for the past few months without issue. Very speedy. Games load without issue and haven't had a hiccup. I highly recommend this hard drive.

I picked this up on sale for $150 and love it! Every other year, I pick up a new hard drive to accommodate my photography library. I may be able to skip the next upgrade with all of this storage.

The capacity of the HD is all you can ask, very fast and reliable. The size even though is kind a big, does not represent a problem comparing with my old 4TB HD. Excellent choice at a good price.

I originally got this external HD for my kids, but they ended up not wanting it. So i kept it for myself. Lot's of storage. Use it to store my pc games.

I use a lot of storage devices and these take up more space because they don't use USB for the power - but they are faster because of this - great for game systems and movies so you don't get lag

Works pretty well, so far. have not had it long enough to know durability.

Works perfect as my plex media server! The read and write speed is better than expected, and I'm very happy I opted to go with the 8tb instead of the 4.

WD External Drives are one of the best out on the market. We use these for local backups of servers and workstations. With 8TB of capacity for such a great price its an easy choice for storage.