Customer Ratings & Reviews

A good amount of storage. Fairly easy to shuck to put the drive in a NAS.

I use these for network backups of servers. Simple to use and reliable.

This does an excellent job storing my excess videos.

Item works as intended, installation is easy to do, the hard drive works with its independent power supplied by a transformer, the connection to the PC and the hard drive is with an USB cable that has an specific connector at the hard drive side. It makes an expected sound when writing or reading data.

This is one of many great products from WD. Easy to use. No need for any apps to download(there optional). Just plug in and it good to use. However it is just a bit expensive.

I have owned quite a few portable external hard drives in the past, and this one sees to be the best so far, It has advanced features that make the drive seem more like an internal drive. It seems to be able to copy whole lot of files very quickly.Moving a terabyte quickly seems quite easy, I hope this drive lasts a long time, because it's very handy, and makes storage very simple.

Works great with a great price point! Easy to use as well.

Great hard drive! Easy to set up, plenty of storage space!

This is a lot of space for the price, the drive is relatively quiet most of the time, the drive comes partitioned with software ready for installation already on the hard drive. This is a very good performing drive for this price point, whether you keep it in its case for backups or take it out for an internal drive.

Needed a big backup to upgrade to Windows 11 and this unit did the trick, plus tons more in space to consolidate other external hard drives.

Really nice that you can connect as a NAS OR direct attached USB storage and go back and forth as needed. Love this!

Allows for FAST, easy and reliable backups. Works like a charm.

The 8tb drive was on sale and a great value, I never hear it and stays cool, works very fast. Great drive for backup.

Read comments from people who own this before buying and sure it did not disappoint. Lots of space, fast and reliable.

Just started using this drive, but so far I'm pleased with the purchase. The price was great, and setup and operation were a breeze. As with any hard drive, time will be the real measure of its performance.

So far so good. I've been using WD drives for my business for years and I've never had an issue with them losing files or malfunctioning so I'm confident this one will be just as great. Easy to set up and works quickly saving files.

We record our weekly services and archive them to the device. Provides us with more than enough space. Easy to use.

This external hard drive is quick and so far reliable. It holds lots of full computer backups and other large files.

Computer was failing and this came in handy to save our files

The cost of storage is/has/and continues to drop through the floor (especially for spin platter designs...SSD will follow). So, getting this guy for the price, to serve as the home server, was a no-brainer. WD has a good reputation. I've had several smaller sizes of this design with no problem. This one has become the music, video, and movie files server location. I'll be adding a second solely as a backup of this one (...because...they're really inexpensive...even if you need to replace one...FROM YOUR BACKUP! :) ). Beware, they sell models advertising "personal cloud" which is the same thing as making a drive available to your local wifi network...don't spend the extra $40-$80 bucks on those models...just attach this one to your network. Yes, those models provide software that manages multiple touching of files but when does that REALLY happen in a household?