Customer Ratings & Reviews

I like WD. Very reliable. Occasionally I have had one or two stop working after a power bump; BUT found that if you carefully open the case, take the HDD out, remove the attached Sata connection card, and use it as an internal HDD; ALL the data is still there and accessible. Love it !

Great reliable drive with a tone of space. So far so good.

Works great and you can't beat the price! 10/10 Would definitely recommend!

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

Use it as a back up on my computer so that I can retrieve data if I want to load it on another computer. Has its own software that has to be loaded to access the hard drive info.

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

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.

Connected easily...drag and drop...love the huge capacity.

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.

So far, so good. I've only begun moving pics from my saved pages to the external hard drive. No issues thus far.

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.

Great External hard drive, I'll save all my pictures here. No issues found on this HD.

Works as advertised. Very easy to shuck, though might want to consider another drive that is easier to verify if cmr or smr

Does what you need, plug it in and store your data.

Works great,backs up all my music,total of over 300,000 songs

USB external hard drives aren't a flashy piece of tech, but their benefits are huge. Personally, I am using this drive on an Xbox Series X for storage of my Xbox One library. I had recently outgrown a 4TB drive and the 1TB internal storage on my One X was maxed out, so 8TB on sale was the next logical jump. Being able to hold your library and GamePass games locally is great. Load times are good, but obviously not as great as SSD. As a spinning HDD, there will be some drive noise. Mine was sitting on an entertainment cabinet shelf and just having the drive on was noticeable. I then found that if I bore out a hole behind the cabinet and lay the drive on its side on top of some styrofoam tape, the drive noise is all but gone. Obviously, everyone's situation varies, but for me, this was a fairly easy fix. I also have two of these drives that I've shucked and am using in a RAID configuration in a personal server at home. In that scenario, they are pretty quiet, as they are in a cool basement closet, and have been in use for about a year and a half now. I can easily recommend these drives to anyone looking for additional space.

This external hard drive works well and is easy to use. Although the first time I brought my computer to Best Buy for them to back it up, they didn't actually do it and the hard drive was empty when I got home. I brought my computer back a second time and that time they actually backed it up.

The performance aligns with expected standards, enabling the efficient backup of a variety of files, including videos and photographs from main computers. Nevertheless, the transfer speed from the easystore unit to other computers is relatively slow, akin to that of numerous external hard drives. In summary, I would confidently recommend this product to my business colleagues.

Great price! Super quiet. Easy to use. Small size yea.

Needed an external storage solution to backup data that was to be deleted and this handled it painlessly and with room left over for future use cases.