Customer Ratings & Reviews

Fast and easy setup with 8T of storage. Works well with my iMac. Great deal at Bestbuy

Great external hardware drive with a whopping 8tb of storage space. No failures for me.

WD 8TB Hard Drive is very good. USB 3.0 is Fast speed. And 8TB heavy Storage. Good.

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.

Purchased 2 at a great price for a 3rd copy of critical data (high channel count audio recordings). They work great for their purpose. Did not want the backup software, nice that we had a choice not to use it. Exactly why we bought easystore version of the WD drives. Thanks WD for a quality, high volume external drive without the extra nuisance. IT liked it enough to purchase one for personal use.

Putchased this when it was a daily deal (and of course the store’s price wasn’t the same as the online price but this seems to be the norm at this particular store - just make sure YOU know the price so that you can request a price match). The only difference between this and the WD My Book 8TB from what I can tell is that this one doesn’t have hardware based encryption. Inside is a WD Red NAS drive which is a high quality drive and will take a beating since they are built to withstand 24x7 operation. If you’re able to get it when it’s a daily deal then jump on it...if you need it sooner and it’s cheaper than the WD My Book and you can forgo the hardware based encryption then this is the better drive. The My Books don’t typically have the WD Red drives. If you look at the price of a comparable bare bones WD Red you’ll usually find that you can get the same size cheaper by getting in the EasyStore.

I needed a large enough hard drive so as not to worry about storing millions of baby pics and videos. It was very easy and fast to back up my MacBook. Great stuff.

I have not purchased 3 of these and am still very please with the size and speed of them. I did by a USB-C connector cable and I can move large files with ease. This is the most expensive one I have paid for of the 3 in my Opinion it still worth the price for Secure backup of my data.

I purchased this Black Friday deal for $130. I usually prefer Seagate due to problems I had years ago with Western Digital hard drives failing . I am only trying this one out because of the price. I will be using this with Xbox One S to store games. I wouldn’t pay regular price though. Still a devoted Seagate owner. I’ve never had any problems with Seagate harddrives! They last for years.

On and running out of the box, Good amount of space at a great price point. Using for my system backups. I think it’s on the slower side and that’s what you should expect from a spinning drive but for backup not a problem at all. Would recommend!!!

Great drive for Mac Time Machine backup - reformat for Mac using Disk Utility. Really good value for 8TB! Quieter and better value than the other WD 8TB.

I purchased this hard drive as a gift for my son to use as an external drive with his PS4. I have purchased other WD external drives and they have worked great.

Value for money. No out of the box support for macOS. You can use it with MacOS with NTFS driver

There’s no real reason this product exists, there are cheaper ways to get a backup drive and use it with a computer, but these are convenient, dependable and reasonably priced. I bought this one to do a mega consolidation of everything I have on many different media, except for my photography

This is... I think, my 8th or 9th WD easystore drive. Of the 8TB variety, this is my 6th. These are great for back-ups and storage of large files. I shucked 4 of them and installed them into a NAS. They work great. Not a single hiccup.

has been great so far! I had a couple of bad experiences with WD hard drives but this ones works well as a storage and working hard drive. I do keep it stationary on my desk and it does not move from that space + stays connected to my computer. will be purchasing another one soon. can't beat the price!

Lovely addition to the arsenal I’d rather Best Buy for the Best Buy

Love this hard drive now I don't have to worry about space at all I'm using it as my backup drive for all my important things and I was able to free up two other hard drives I was using in the meantime great company great quality product.

Internal drive is a WD White Label WD80EDAZ. Many videos can be found on YouTube on how to shuck the drive and open the case. Popping the updated case open is exactly like for former version even though the exterior of the case looks a bit updated. Wait for it to go on sale and you can get a great deal.

Just Plug and play. Very easy install. Big space. Will hold tons of pictures.