Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is an excellent drive. Inside are WD Reds or White Label Reds, which are top quality drives. This drive when on sale is an excellent price / performance-quality ratio.

I havent had a problem out of this one at all. It does what it needs to in the background without any maintenance at all. Only thing is if it's in your view you'll see the white light blinking when its reading data but that's not a problem for me.

WD - easystore 8TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive this drive just works great I'm using to store all my back stuff from my laptop I recommend

No complaints. This was purchased for a work related project where we need something portable and reliable. It was in stock and no complaints.

Great for storing those games you don't play alot, but want to be able to access them without waiting for down loads. Keep in mind it's not an ssd and is loud like the older hd that comes stock with a basic pc. For the price and what I use it for it's perfect

WD has been my tried and true for years. Easy to use, just plug in and start transferring files. I was able to transfer countless hours of video footage with ease.

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

This is the best bang for your buck storage. The hard drive is enterprise grade for a fraction of the price of the hard drive purchased on its own

Got this for my Xbox one so I don’t have to waste time on downloading games. It’s nice I have just under 60 games and only used 27% storage

Bought this to use as my main hard drive for my PS4. Easy to setup and I have no worries about running out if space for games. Purchased on sale for great price.

Just make sure it's not SMR I get a new drive every year or 2 just be very careful It took some time and I had to make an account with WD to get this info Dear Scott I appreciate your time and patience. Based on the information from your account as you are looking to buy the 8TB version of the EasyStore drive, the drive should be a PMR drive, not an SMR drive inside. If you have any further questions, please reply to this email and we will be happy to assist you further. Sincerely, Tim P Western Digital Technical Support

Every 10-20 seconds it makes a click; from what I've read, that's to be expected. I guess it wouldn't be a good idea to keep this "always plugged in" to be available for a scheduled back-up; thus my forgoing that in the back-up s.w. settings. Never tried WD Backup, but the version of Acronis that comes with it, is the anemic stripped-down version, rather useless for anything other than cloning a disk; not what I had in mind for a backup. Will allow an upgrade to the full version at a 10 buck savings....the path I took for an additional $30. I guess time will tell, if the thing will last far past it's meager 2yr warranty. Then if the Acronis backup Software fails, the device matters very little. Only time will tell; will up-date when a catastrophe strikes....if possible :)

Hard to find a better price for so much storage. I use this as supplemental storage, and copy everything back onto my hard drive for when I need to use data.

There's plenty of storage to keep everything stored and backed up. It's a bit bulky to work with, and strangely this one is not as fast as couple other drives I have of the exact same type and model. The actual hard drive inside these models might vary, so it's a hit-or-miss.

On sale for $130 each. Shucked them and put into Synology NAS. Virtually identical to WD Red drives at almost 2X the cost. Ran extensive testing. Works GREAT !!!

This thing works as expected. I bought it to store my massive amount of photos and videos. It serves that purpose just fine. No issues at all after 2 weeks.

As a filmmaker, storage is very crucial of having. Got this bad boy for a good deal. It's solid and definitely have no regrets purchasing this.

I bought this for the X0X and I don't expect to ever have to buy additional hard drive space within the next 20 years. If I do I'll go buy another one of these 8 terabytes.

Easy to connect to pc. No problems at all running this hard drive with Windows 10. I copied 5TB of movies to it and the copy speed was exceptional.

Pros: Reasonable transfer speed with usb 3.0; value of money Cons: Bulky, needs external power.