Customer Ratings & Reviews

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

I bought this external hard drive to back up my desktop and preserve thousands of photos. The device was super easy to set up and so far has performed flawlessly. It's also quiet when running. So far so great!

It's a pretty self explanatory item. Large capacity at 8 TB, easy to connect, easy to install, easy to use, and most of all, FAST. Plus, very affordable. I am thoroughly pleased with this purchase.

Seems like a great deal to me! So far works great.

Great price, easy set up, great size, great price.

It holds a lot and it works fine. I have no issues with it.

Inexpensive, easy storage. Easy to set up, just plug and play.

8TB right out of the box. Found by both a MS Windows and CentOS systems. Data transfer slightly faster than earlier WDC drives.

This is a must buy if you're looking for a reliable and fast external USB 3.0 drive. The hard drive inside the enclosure is a WD 8TB Red NAS drive. Use it as is as an external drive or remove the hard drive and put in your NAS or in your PC. Make sure you wait for it to be on sale so you can get at a great price too.

My Hitachi external back up was no longer working went to Best Buy to purchase another one. Was Installed by Ryan of the Geek Squad so far so good.

I purchased this external hard drive to replace a Seagate drive that died on me suddenly. So far this fits my needs. It's very quiet and writes quickly. So far it fits my needs well. It includes software for windows and Mac.

A bit slow booting up but that’s expected since its a HDD but other than that it runs smoothly was able to move all of my data on to this and it made it so much easier to have everything on one drive rather than having different flash drives

Great hard drive! I highly recommend this ~ easy set up!

Bought to store movies. Plenty of space and easy to use.

This is a great hard drive, I have purchased several of these and they work great. The supplied power supply goes off to the side vs. hanging down so that may help with multiple drives connected to the same outlet will fit nicely.

8TB Easystore (BestBuy exclusive product line) uses quality 5400RPM helium filled Red (WD80EFAX) or white label (WD80EMAZ) drives, these have NAS/RAID features (i.e. TLER) that are important for some uses. The high-capacity drives are a great value, especially during frequent sales. Thai produced drives have 256MB of cache. Runs a bit hot in the plastic enclosure, not much room inside. If you plan on writing TBs of data at once, keeping a fan blowing over the drive may help. For my use case (NAS/media servers), both red and white label drives worked out really well (no 3.3v issues with 3 of my EMAZ) in my Dell R510, with Unraid directly accessing/managing disks via H200 adapter flashed to IT mode.

Fast drive at a good price. Great for backups and storing photos and videos.

I use this as my secondary backup drive for media. It run really quite. The only downside i see its not ssd and 16 tb lol

Pretty nice HDD for the price, easy setup and easy to use

I bought 2 of these for my Son and saved a boatload of money from the Holiday Sale at BestBuy. He also bought 2 to use as backups for the first set. He has tons of movies that require a lot of storage and requested this model. I shopped around and couldn't find a sleeker design or a better price anywhere.