Customer Ratings & Reviews

I’ve bought many HD over the years, and they all have a risk of failing, but WD has always outlasted the rest with the best odds of years of service, This is another great quality drive!

Pro: very easy to use and decent speed. It gets around 75MB/s writing speed. Con: the noise is very noticeable. I put it on the floor because of it.

When the drive spins up it has a loud whine which after a week has not demished

This drive stayed quiet for over 280 days with regular usage. It's been a week, this has started to generate grinding noise and is becoming so annoying to hear that all the time. It's not even a year and from what I'm reading online, the moment you hear grinding noise in the hard drive, it's a sure way sign that it will fail or suddenly stop working. What a let down! I'm setting up raid now that my data is growing and to avoid these nuisances and risk losing my data. I shucked this drive and out of warranty too, so nothing left for me than wait for this drive to die on me now.

Bought 2 of these. Removed it from the enclosure. Luckily both of them are Red drive which is highly recommended for NAS. Using it in my windows homeserver and it is working great.

This drive is made by a trusted name in data storage. Western Digital has been doing it for a long time and they keep up well with the times. This is an awesome portable hard drive with quality.

Not a computer whiz so the fact this was configured for Windows eluded me until I went online. When I got the proper software to configure for Mac it was easy. Had the same problem only once before so had forgotten that fiasco

The Google Home Mini is amazing. It beats the Echo Dot by identifying the person it is talking to, being able to answer more questions, and support for more smart home and Chromecast.

Useless no instructions on how to install or how to use or how to remove the folders from your old unit and where they are stored and how to retrieve them

I bought this hard drive to backup two laptops and two desk tops. So far it has performed flawlessly and has decent transfer speeds. Getting it at a very low price also helped!!

I like this hard drive the only thing I don’t like is that it isn’t cloud, that was my mistake though while I was purchasing. I use it as my master backup and it was a great purchase

There was a loose part inside, so had to open it up. It was the WD white drives instead of red. Works, but isn't as quiet and it vibrates more than my natural WD red drives. Not that great if you have to constantly use it and leaving it on, but good for backing up and storing away.

After losing some important data and photos, backing my files up has become a top concern. This is a great external hard drive.

Bought multiple drives, opened the case, and installed them in my server at home. Way cheaper than buying the internal drive.

It is a great drive, performance is almost a 5 star. The only thing that knocked off a whole star for me was the noise. I understand a drive of this size will be louder but this would sometimes make my whole desk shake very lightly. I am running two other machines on my desk that do not have this effect.

This is my 6th one of these in 8 years , I use it almost every day but alas they are material and we live in a capatalist society so they build them to break down and not last forever . Wish it was a bit more durable . Gets the job done but I always have to make sure I have a backup for my backup

bought several of these over the years. Great drive. Most come with the Western Digital Red NAS drive inside if you are shucking them for the drive.

Bought to use as a shared backup drive. Installed on my Netgear router and share across multiple computers. Backup software included is very limited providing basic backup functionality.

Only had this about one month. I have it attached to my router and am using it as an Apple Time Capsule. Works great so far. I’m told it has a quality hard drive inside used in a NAS.

Best deal I could find. Not compact but its used to back up a desktop machine so sized did not matter. I have an older Elements version of this and it has an on/off switch. Not a big deal because windows put these things to sleep after a few minutes.