Customer Ratings & Reviews

By far the best terabyte per dollar storage option available right now. Highly reliable drive

Some have dissed this external drive based on the heat generated by the drive itself. That may result in shorter lifespan, or it may not. We would all like the hard drives to last forever. None of them will. For the mean time this is very inexpensive storage. I need the space but only need to have it connected to the computer periodically. It will be a number of years before I know for sure but I suspect it will last at least twice the time of the warranty and probably longer based on how I used it. In terms of cost per Tb, this is probably one of the, if not the least expensive options. I have this connected to an older computer on which the formatting of the drive causes an issue with my bios. Before storing it, I reformatted to a compatible format. The format shipped prevents a restart on my computer when the drive is still connected.

I have purchased several of these over the years for data archives. Several of the drives that were purchased from Best Buy are still in service. I have five of these drives. The only one of these drives that gave me any trouble was purchased online from another vendor...NOT from Best Buy. Some are at lease years old.

Great storage and easy to use. Not super fast but great for just storing whats needed

These WD Easystore drives are great drives for storing media.. They're basically a Best Buy in-house labelled version of the WD Elements or WD My Book drives that are available through Amazon and other retailers. The drives inside the case are usually white-label WD Blues, Greens, or Reds, but your mileage may vary. Enjoy!

Can't beat it, easy to set up and reliable. Replacing all my older Seagate drives with these

The WD BLACK 8TB storage drive was s a bit hole lot of storage for a very low price. This is a no brainer.

Excellent storage capacity at 8tb at an arrordabke price!

Excellent size storage for saving all my stuff. Easy to setup and use with long warranty.

Opened case and removed hard drive. It is WD red hard drive as expected. Great performance.

My family often downloads so many new games the come out. We have multiple consoles but we also have Xbox Game Pass. This storage device is great. Would definitely recommend.

Great purchase for the price and need. A flash drive does not have the same capacity. Now I can store all of my Mp3,photos,software and other personal data. I can't wait to share my great purchase with all of my friends. Maybe they will want to purchase a hard drive of their own with the same capacity. Thank you verymuch.

Massive storage but I did have issues with Windows 7 and 10 64bit not immediately showing it in File Explorer, I had to go thru Devices (not to be confused with Device Manager) to initially access the storage and the WD setup files included. I believe it was more of an issue with Windows than WD Can also download files from WD.

Easy to set up. Backed up lots of files quickly. Is fast enough to work with Lightroom and Photoshop. Doesn't take up too much room on my desktop. Great price for 8T of storage. Comes with WD software to run automatic backups. I recommend it!

I bought this product for storage and I really like it. Worth the purchase!

I needed this to store large files such as movies, I have more movies than I could ever find time to watch and still have Terrabytes to spare. I also back up my 1TB internal hard drive in case of a crash. I'm not a gamer but this would work for them as well.

I have 3 of these. I use them for backing up important Windows 10 files as well as iPhone and iPad photos. One of them uses Memeo Backup Premium. The other two are for air gapped storage. They are only connected when I physically transfer files. The USB 3.0 drives are fairly fast.

Working great for backing up my movies on Plex 8TB on sale for $129 thank you Best Buy.

Are you kidding me! I paid around $120 for an 8TB external hard drive!!! I’ve used smaller portable versions of this brand for 15 years with no issues. This was used to consolidate my mother’s CD collection. Easy to set up and use. If she can use it at over 70 years old, anyone can. Excellent bang for your buck.

Runs a little noisier than I’d like and shows scratches super easily, works nice for my purposes though. Doesn’t play nice with most blu ray players because the high capacity I assume.