Customer Ratings & Reviews

The set up was easy and straight forward. Great storage capacity and the price was right at time of purchase

Great price, shuckable, but they run good enough in the enclosure.

Great value drive. performs great and easy to use. Its a simple setup

Product is as described online. I have had no issues and it has plenty of memory to accommodate my needs.

Provides all the storage I could want for a bargain price.

Lots of storage space and works great with my Xbox Series X. Only downside is newer games will not play from it unless they are moved to internal storage. Not a drive problem, but an Xbox problem. Still great storage for the price.

This drive is not too big physically but probably not something you want to use as a ‘carry around’ portable. The 8TB capacity is large enough to back up all of my 50,000+ photos and other video projects. It has good speed when transferring files. I haven’t had any problems transferring about 1TB of files to it from another drive. Under normal reading and writing of files it doesn’t seem too loud but I notice a light clicking sound every 10 seconds when the drive is idle. I do wish the drive would’ve come with a Micro B to USB-C cable.

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.

Installed 2 8 TB drives and using it as Raid1. It was comparatively easy to setup. Using it for a week.

This is a nice sized hard drive. I'm using it as a backup for my Mac system. The price was good compared to other options I've looked at. While it comes formatted for Windows systems, it is not too difficult to reformat to the Mac file system. But you have to do that to make it usable.

I was hesitant to get this hard drive at first, and don't regret my decision because I've been able to backup my current files from work, and still have plenty of space. I just wish it didn't have the AC Adapter, but that is a small price to pay.

Great Price for Western Digital external hard drive. Drives inside are usually non-tler white label hgst or wd reds. YMMV. As packaged works great as a reasonable fast mass storage backup only spinning up when needed. USB 3.0 but of course limited to the sata limits of the mechanical hard drive. 100-150 MB's maximum.

Solid price and has been working non stop since I got it

I have several of these. I buy them Black Friday every couple years as the sizes increase. I am setting this one up for a Plex server at home connected to my router directly. I have a 4 TB connected to my Xbox One which is a faster interface than the internal drive and much more storage. Feel free to research the faster connection as I did before I bought this for that purpose. I have some others as external storage on my computers.

Plug and play. No issues to date. I've had it for about one month now

I have been using Western Digital products for years and have always had excellent results. You can't beat the price for the 8TB drive. As an Apple person I need to format my drives to Mac Compatible and it is a breeze. Handles Time Machine without fault and stores my wifes 100,000+ photos with ease. Yes, on occasion the drive does make very slight vibration on my desk that is virtually imperceptible and rare and runs very cool. I tried a Seagate as well and it was a mess. I highly recommend this drive as well as my additional 5 Western Digital drives that have given me nothing but excellent performance. I keep a full b/u of both my Macs on two different Western Digital drives and keep them locked away for safety purposes and only pull them out to update. I never worry that Western Digital will let me down and if needed, Customer Support was excellent when I had an issue with Time machine not backing up. Not Western Digitals issue, a mistake made by me.

We use it at work to backup video production, so we go through space pretty quickly. We've found that backing up on a hard drive like one and then storing it in a safe deposit box is much more cost effective than paying for "cloud storage". This unit is compact and easy to use.

This unit offers plenty of storage. No problems , easy to setup, time will tell about it’s longevity.

Lots of storage at a very discounted price. Easy connection via USB

I had to buy a new hard drive since a few of my older ones were starting to become defective, and I needed to back them up ASAP. I couldn’t just get any hard drive though, since I’m using an older Mac with Snow Leopard still! Thankfully this drive is compatible and it helped me save my files with no issue.