Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great price for a large amount of storage. Easy set up.

Does exactly what it is intended for. Pretty much just unbox, plug it in and start using it. I used this to replace a flaky WD Game Drive and after several days/weeks or heavy usage it's still cranking as expected.

Now I can save all my pictures and videos and share it to everybody at home, great hard drive

Out of the box, I formatted the drive to NTFS and set it up using the included backup software. I am using this drive to back up a 3TB and a 1TB internal HDD, and then my 256GB SSD Windows drive. I have a very nice/fast gaming PC with 6 USB 3.0 ports. Given the specs of my drives and this backup drive, I calculated that it should take less than 3 hours to backup ~4TB. Well the process was VERY slow. I tried several USB ports, and landed on one of them directly on the mobo so there was no question that I should be getting the best connection. It took about 30 hours for the full transfer. I backed up each drive individually with no difference in speed. I backed up the biggest drive over night (~2.5TB of mostly movies/shows), and when I woke up, the drive was very hot. I don't think overheating is an underlying issue with this drive, but something is clearly struggling in the transfer process. I tested my ports/speeds by transfering ~80GB of music to a USB 3.0 120GB flash drive and it only took a few minutes. Given that the warranty is decent on this drive and it isn't storing any critical information, I will play around with it and make sure that there is no issue on my end. I will update this review if I discover the issue or need to end up returning/exchanging this drive, I have a suspicion that the WD backup software might be the bottleneck so my next step is to format all that hard work and try the transfer again with no software, and then again with a trusted program after I do some research.

Amazing deal - included WD Red 8TB -- Completely Shuckable - I didn't have tension screwdriver either, but after removing from the case, those 4 screws on the side can actually be twisted by hand with a slight grip. I just grabbed some pliers and with minimal torgue twisted em. I did the last 2 with just my hand. Very simple.

I've been using this for one of my backups for several months and have had not problems with it. Has enough room for my numerous photos and videos.

Lots of storage and decent speed for retrieval although probably the computer that carries most of that responsibility

Bought this for my xbox one. Specifically for the upcoming xbox one x and the 4k assets that it will bring for certain games. This 8TB version is definitely enough storage for all my games. So far I have 40 games installed (not all big file sizes tho) and only used up a little over 1TB. I highly recommend getting this hard drive.

It was easy to attach the drive and format it. Worked as expected.

Tons of space and a great price when they go on sale.

Great plug and play hard drive for my Mac Time Machine backup.

I bought this to store all my HD video contents as well as back up data files. The unit worked reasonably well. I don't have it powered on all the time so I'm not really stressing it. Setting up was quick and easy. Transfer speed was reasonably fast. I wish the unit was a little bit slimmer but I can understand the potential thermal issues that can be experienced (perhaps they can use some metal in the housing to conduct some heat away?). Overall, it's a good backup disk to have but the size is big.

Excellent storage capacity. Great price. Easy setup.

Very easy to use. And is super quiet. Looks good too.

I just needed a place store large video files and this was really cheap per TB. Not as fast as some but a really good value.

Easy to install, great price. Working as I expected.

this one is the cheap one with no password just so you know. works great. lots of space.

Looking to expand memory on my all in one and the customer service is amazing answered all question and a tech staff even suggest the right plug n play for the external hard drive. Great shopping experience, staff very knowledgeable.

Plug and play. Got it for a great deal and love it.

I plugged it into my Linux computer ad was able to easily format it as ext4 for use on my Linux systems.