Customer Ratings & Reviews

If you want tons of space to save things like pictures, video games, tv shows, movies....etc.....etc.....this is something for you. With that many TB this will go a long ways.

Picked this up the other day for a great price. This will be used as the third system to complete my back up of data. It has a small footprint and is easy to use, just plug and play. You can use the apps that come with it to set up a backup system or just drag and drop Nice unit, recommend

Great hard drive! I highly recommend this ~ easy set up!

TL;DR These harddrives REQUIRE fan cooling, but have non. They Idle at 65c. They will Fail from overheating. They have Cheap Harddrives inside instead of REDS. ------------------------------- These harddrives had sky rocketed to $250 thanks to the bitcoin craze and finally dropped down to a normal price thanks to the bitcoin crash. I finally got my hands on one for $180. I've heard nothing but good news about these drives since they have Helium filled 5000rpm WD reds in them and are shuckable. Unfortunatly WD has gone into full cheap mode and has started using cheap white labeled 7200rpm drives that are non shuckable and filled with air instead of helium. So they get hot, very hot. I took my new HD home and plugged everything in and the problems started. You get 7.270TB of usable data instead of the full 8.000TB. This really sucks since i could have bought two 5tb drives for $200 and gotten 9.070TB worth of storage since each 5tb drive has 4.540TB worth of storage space. I started transfering my data to this new harddrive. Data transfers at 90mb/s to 200mb/s which is good. These harddrives are loud. They click, clank and make all sorts of weird noises when in idle mode. Also when they vibrate i can feel i pulse from my desk. There wasn't anything wrong with the drives its just they're cheapy harddrives and are just loud and vibrate/rumble like an xbox or sony controller. I checked google and this is normal for these harddrives as well as for their more expensive black drives. Hardrives should be kept cool. Its why they have a metal top. For heat dispersion. I pluggged in my new 8tb drive and it idled at 32c which is great since HD's should stay in the 40c to 50c range. Anything above 50c and harddrives should slow themselves down to avoid cooking themselves. It took about 15 minutes, but i saw that this drive slowly crawled its way up from 32c to 65c during transfers!! I stoppped transfering data to see if the temps would drop and they never did. I unplugged this HD and let it cool by a fan and plugged it back in. Slowly at idle with no transfer's going on this HD crawled back from 32c all the way to 62c. putting my hand above the vent you can feel the heat like a frying pan just cooking this harddrive. I stuck a mini fan on top, started transfering data and watched the temp of this drive go from 65c down to 38c. With the mini fan on top i could feel the heat coming out of this enclosure and it felt like one of those personal heaters you buy during the winters. It took about 5 minutes for the enclosure to get down to 38c and the heat coming out felt felt really cool. This is unacceptable since WD should include a fan inside of this enclosure. I've decided that this is a bad design and refuse to do the work of WD, so i returned this 8tb easystore the next day. I'm going to buy two 5tb portable hardrives for $200 as my brother has a couple and they idle at 40c and go to 50c during transfers which is way cooler than these overheating 8tb easystores. Also i'll have 2gb of extra space. I've always used WD since seagate creates faulty drives, but when a company makes a bad product you have to call them out on it. These large disk easy stores are complete junk and should be redesigned with a fan in the case. buy at your own risk.

Pretty nice HDD for the price, easy setup and easy to use

Great item and vakue. I feel always very good when this tyoe is purchased

I am a avid pic taker so I have thousands of pics have a smaller version of this and it was full time for a new one...

Bought these to store a ton of video footage for a documentary that I was involved in shooting and they worked out just great. Gave me lots of storage space and are plug and play.

What is there to say, 8TB of storage. What a world that can offer that much storage and the price has risen but then aren't all things going up. 35 years ago 8 MB was hard to imagine then they went to 20 MB, Thought it would never ever get this big. Waiting for the PB.

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

Very happy with my purchase of this external hard drive. Was very easy to transfer all of my pictures and documents from my old desktop to the hard drive.

Great product, easy to install. With excellent support from manufacturer , if needed

Why spend money on another monthly fee for more and more cloud space when this is a one and done solution.

A very nice drive. Not to big in physical size and great storage capacity.

Now I can download all my classic flix and not worry about running out of room. I really needed the storage space.

Great product Recommendation for safe and protected all your files

I'm a person that constantly work with big files and this hard drive have provided me with the space and not to mention the transferring of files is fast.

Ridiculous amount of storage. We got it to add space to the PS5. Works great with it.

So far this is my 4th external drive I purchase from Best Buy. All of them being a WD easystore. So far I haven't had any problems with any of them. I have used them for ps4 or xbox one storage.

This is my 3rd WD external storage device. I keep buying more because they work! They are easy to set up and manage and so far I’m happy with the this purchase and would strongly recommend WD.