Customer Ratings & Reviews

When on sale, this is the best value external drive you can buy. Best Buy arranges some serious magic with WD to get these 8TB easystore models priced extremely low at times, with the hard drive mechanism inside worth nearly twice as much. Those bare drives rarely go on sale, which makes these external models very popular. This is no cheap-o hard drive. These are a variant on the 5400 RPM WD Red, designed for 24/7 always-on usage in server systems. So far, mine have been extremely quiet as well. Zero complaints. Keep those WD deals coming, Best Buy!

I love this hard drive. So much, in fact, hat it's the second one I've bought! The hard drive is easy to set up and use, fast, and very reliable.

I was initially going to use this for my video games but decided to just use it for my computer. No complaints so far, was able to store tons of my photos pretty quickly and the HD isn't too loud at all. It was priced at a great price for 8 TB.

I read up on these and decided I needed this to handle my gaming needs for my Xbox One. Could not pass on that $139.99 price. I missed out on the 4TB Easy Store portable HDD for $79.99 on Black Friday. I've read other reviews and got lucky on getting a WD Red NAS with 256mb cache. Hear these are ideal for NAS use, but I just needed it for my Xbox games library.

This hard drive allows me to store all my pictures and videos. I am a professional photographer and it has so much space and so easy to set up.

So many thing can be stored in here!!! Totally recommend to get for it’s affordable price!

Well priced! Easy setup. These drives are great. I have a bunch of them.

Easy to use and reliable storage. Worth the investment.

So far so good, haven't owned it a year yet. Easy to use and plenty of storage space.

this external has a white label WD drive inside. The particular drive is identically specced to a WD Red label drive and works great in a NAS.

It's 8TB of space on an external USB 3.0. Can't go wrong with that. So far so good. USB 3.0 makes a huge difference transferring large files.

Lots of space in a book-sized hard drive. Easy to store away and take around with you. It does require a power source to turn on as the USB port is not strong enough to turn on by itself.

The drive Looks great and compact. Sleek and seems well-made. So far so good.

Can't have too much storage. These WD drives are solid performers.

I bought this to use as a backup for my computers. It was easy to set up and use with plenty of storage space for all family members to use.

Had this a while and it works great. Saved us from a crashing drive and holds a lot more. No hiccups with this device.

f you're looking for a great external hard drive, look no further. I bought this drive because of the outstanding reviews and the more lackluster reviews on it's sister products. What any user needs to do when buying any sort of external hard drive should expect some sort of noise. It isn't an external SSD. So expect some sort of noise. With headphones on, I don't notice the noise on this drive at all when it was performing it's first backups. With headphones off, it is hardly noticeable. I am using this drive to back up all my data across three different computers: an old laptop, a school/work laptop, and the new PC I built. Now, I will be able to access all my data from the new PC I built with plenty of room for future data back ups. I can't speak on durability quite yet. Rest assured, I will certainly update this review significantly if this dies within a year of purchase. Side note: I have been seeing things that this could have a white label or a WD red drive inside. I would prefer not to shuck this out of the casing, so if anyone knows another way to tell, let me know!

Excellent Value. Easy setup and use. Perfect to store large files on.

I had purchased 2 of the 4TB easy stores in the past for video storage. They worked out just fine. No issues at all. So when it was time to purchase another, it was an easy choice. I couldn't find a new 4TB drive. While searching I found the 8TB at a price drop. Couldn't be happier.

A lot of storage and is plug and play so you just plug it in and it works.