Customer Ratings & Reviews

Bought this to replace my old ssd external drives and was very impressed. Transfer rate was good and had no problems after. Only downside is that it vibrates a little when data transfers are in progress. Would suggest getting a stand or mount.

Great pricing for 8TB. Fast transfer speeds with USB 3.0. I use it as a master back up for my whole system and could not be happier.

Tested great 256mb no errors. Specs Identical to the Red version w newer plain white label, same firmware as well.

The drive is fast and allowed me to drop 2 4GB drives off of my system and into my son's system. It wants to configure as a back-up but I am using it for storage.

I'd give it 4.5 but that's not an option. My one and only complaint is that when my Xbox one is in hybernate, the external hard drive randomly spins up. And if the USB is unplugged while in use the hdd some times takes a while to stop spinning.

I partitioned to make backup couple of devices I have and make sure is plugged it and when you don't need unplugged. otherwise keeps backup as much as you want.

WD Red inside. Best home consumer RAID drives out there. You won't be disappointed.

Great drive for a great price. The USB 3.0 connection provides fast transfers. It's perfect for my photo and data backups

My 3 tb Toshiba is just to small and needed more room to store favorite videos and all the photos I have taken for work.

Great backup solution, plugged into windows 7 box, added drivers and boom... backup with no problems. Now had for a couple weeks and works well.

Solid external hard drive. Read/write speeds are fast, at least to the point I don’t find myself thinking it’s taking too long. Not much else to say, really.

I have been using this external drive as my backup device without issue. I am also a WD users for years. always have confidence in WD products.

It's larger in size than expected but it works well.

I bought 3 of these and they all made noise and spun up constantly out of the box. Spend the extra money and get a western digital red drive

I had a WD external drive die on me. I went to Best Buy and purchased a new 8TB unit and started the task of retrieving software. A few weeks after I was filing receipts and found a warranty I purchased for the dead unit. I went in and this is the item available for replacement. I gladly accepted it as I didn't expect to get a replacement since I didn't remember buying the 4 year warranty. I took it home and left in unopened in the closet. I started using it about 2 weeks ago and it tends to make a grinding noise when it's writing. Not a I'm going to die noise, just enough to make me worry. It's the cheapest one WD makes, so in this case, I get what I paid for. I just hope it lasts.

I've been using this drive for over a year now and it still works great. I shucked it and am using it internally in my PC. It doesn't have the fastest writes speeds, but it isn't slow for my needs. I haven't had any issues with the drive.

This is a good external drive. It contains a WD "White" drive which has the same specifications as the WD "Red" drive, which is a NAS rated drive.

So far, I am getting good drives (8,10,12 TB) and bought them over the time. I also bought one 8TB from Amazon beside Bestbuy. They are all running great! I took out 3 of them out from the enclosures since if something is going wrong, I couldn't read it anymore when connected directly to sata on my mobo or other external reader. I think it is the matter of block writing format that WD USB enclosure is using. -12 TB I left it out as cold backup for my photography -10 TB as hot backup for my photography. I also put my daily files to the drive. -8 TB as my Linux drive for steam games and software application -8 TB with original enclosure as media files -8 TB unused for now These drives are quite. Good for backup, storing active games installation files, media etc. Whenever I need to edit my photos I move them to my NVME or regular 2.5" SSD and move them back after my edit. The curse of having large raw files from my mirrorless camera, you need large storage. I am planning to buy a 14TB or/and 16TB soon this week. I still have a lot of 500GB,1TB,2TB, 3TB and 4TB drives around from Western Digital, Seagate, Iomega. So far out of 15: -2xSeagate. One 5TB portable I purchased failed spectacularly in just short few month. The 500GB is running great. -2x Iomega. One 1TB failed around 10 years ago. I think one of them is still running but I left it is collecting dust. -The rest of the drives are Western Digital and they are all still running good with only 1/10 which is a 3TB failed after 3 years. Some of them are over 10 years and still running. It is crazy. -The last one I couldn't remember the brand but I gave it away. I wish I am getting red drive but I learned recently WD using SMR for most of the drives I purchased which is a let down. As long as they are not failing I am happy.

you get what you see. Nothing more nothing less...

I'm using this to store some additional media for my Plex setup and so far seems fine. Plugged it in and it worked without issue. I was a little curious about it's funky usb cable but as long as it works it works.