Customer Ratings & Reviews

These drives on a sale price just can't be beat! These are not the troublesome 'green' drives. I purchased what I could afford, and hopefully I get a second chance with another sale later this year.

I picked up this 8TB external drive, on a "Deal of the Day". USB 3.0 speeds are around 190MB/s, read and write. So far, so good. I may shuck this later after the warranty runs out.

You can't go wrong getting this EHD, ESPECIALLY if it's on sale. Ever since losing valuable information on a Seagate external hard drive I've stuck with Western Digital and haven't been disappointed.

Good drives. Have had some running for well over a year. Drives tend to run hot, but a simple computer fan on top is more than it enough to bring them back to acceptable temperatures.

If you are buying this to shuck it it's an excellent deal as they contain the Western Digital Black HDD which is the performance version of WD drives

Picked it up when it was on sale. Great price and it works as advertised. The backup program included free is pretty basic, but seems to be working well. I like it a lot!

I bought this to shuck and use the hard drive in a NAS setup, but needed the extra storage right away. Connected easily to the USB 3 port on my computer and has worked flawlessly so far.

This external hard drive is what I needed it to be - big. I'm compiling all of my files from all of my other external hard drives, and this one is big enough to hold them all.

This is a WD hard drive, what more do I need to say. They are the only ones that I trust outside of SanDisk. I was able to pick this one up at half the price and so I jumped at the opportunity.

Bought this during a pretty good sale. Currently using it for Xbox One game storage. It has worked very well for me. Speeds are good and no reading errors.

I purchased this for use with my router for a NAT setup. Works well. Decent data transfer speeds. Doesn’t get too hot. Quiet enough for my use. Very satisfied with this purchase!

Works seamlessly. I plugged it on to my computer and worked like a charm. I didn’t use the software it came with because that takes up space. Just drag and dropped large files over.

Bought this to backup our laptop. Easy to install and somewhat easy to set up. WD's program didn't want to work so I went thru windows to set up. Works good that way.

Nice hard drive. Based on my research, it runs at 5700rpm, which is the slowest I’ve read about for a usb3 external hd. Solid state is the fastest, followed by 7200rpm. That said, I got 8TB for about $160, and that’s almost unbeatable online or anywhere. As a photographer, this is a gem. I now have 2 of these

This is my third purchase of a WD 8TB external drive of this model. I use two on a laptop I have working as a music server as part of my audio system, one as the drive holding WAV files of about 4000 albums and the second as a backup for that drive. As you might guess, it is pretty important that both those drives work well. They have worked so well and seem so robust that when I purchased a new desktop for my home office, I bought a third of these drives as my backup target for the desktop. Haven’t been sorry about any of these purchases, but understand that this model may no longer be in production. If so, trust the new model will be as good as this one.

These ain't your grandpa's 20mb hard drives. I mean,, a 3.5" bare 8tb drive is more expensive. You can't go wrong.

I've purchased many of these (15+) over the past year. I have never had a DOA and they are all working flawlessly. WD has always been my go to brand and has never disappointed.

The drive works fantastic and overall the performance is above what I expected. This is my last HDD overall for storage but im glad i picked this one up.

Still the best deal when Best Buy has these on sale to shuck the case and use the drives in your home NAS. When these go on sale I pickup one and add it to my Drobo with little problem.

Great product when on sale. I got this bad boy for only $129. Don't overpay because they do go on sale from time to time. Black Friday is the best time to buy.