Customer Ratings & Reviews

Excited to find out that these have WD RED drives inside. Should provide a good storage option for NAS or remain a reliable external backup. Price at BestBuy was very good. Time will tell if the drive lasts, but the external has a 2yr warranty and I expect to use it well past that mark.

Always used Western Digital drives since my first PC still have those decade plus drives and they run never recieved a DOA or bad product from them neither so cannot testify to customer support or RMAs. The drive sustains 150+mbps R/W speeds via USB 3.0 It appears no reds now but took a gamble for $140 can't beat the deal for 8TBs anyways. The drive is a white drive SATA / 256mb cache WD80EMAZ Which is now made by aquired company via WD and this white drive has protection if you shuck or remove it. It will not play due to a so called feature in the drive. But boils down to the PSU sending 3volts down 4th wire and makes the drive unreadable via bio's, system monitor software, and disk management. To overcome this you need a simple cheap adapter --- 8inch SATA 15pin Female to Molex 4pin Male Power Adapter (90 Degree) <---- simple highlight that right click and search google Do not buy the cheapo kind that has a molded form "Sealing the Wires" these are known to combust My rig now servers as a 24.7 media server pushing 2to3 streams throughout the house without a issue, 24.7 content digester if you know what I mean, 24.7 encoder via handbrake and endless historical library to HEVC 265, and of course 24.7 workstation and whatever else need be THOR =MY RIG SPECS: Rosewill THOR V2 Full Tower Case Intel Skylake Unlocked 4ghz 1151 socket - OC'd @ 4.6 on stock air cooling. Tested and destroyed water cooling temps on 3 units. Water cooling was 8 to 15C hotter idle/load Cooler Master Hyper 212X 2x120mm fans EVGA SuperNova G2 750W PSU EVGA Z170 FTW Motherboard EVGA GeForce GTX 960 FTW GAMING ACX 2.0+ with Backplate - 2GB's 2x8GB Gskill DDR4 3200mhz memory 120GB V300 Kingston SSD 2x1TB WD Black dual processors [1&5TB dives 150+mbps] 1x5TB WD Black 128mb caches 2x8TB WD Reds [50/50mbps] buy pros for sure 1x8TB WD White {shucked} 256mb cache ViewSonic 27" 144hz DP (1) ASUS 24" 1080p HDMI (2) GSKILL KM780 RGB Mech Keyboard {sux} GSKILL MX780 Gaming Mouse {sux} I do have other brands of drives with my old WD drives decade old and the others are newer and have 2 failing as I type this literally still 0 WD failures/DOAs

Great product, easy to install. With excellent support from manufacturer , if needed

Purchased 2 online through Memorial Day sale 2019. Received 2/2 WD80EMAZ-00WJTA0, which are helium filled (see pic for helium level in the SMART output). The drive inside is luck of the draw. There are lots of threads about these drives if you look around the net.

Saw this drive come up on one of the daily deals for $139. For an 8 terabyte drive, that was unheard of! This will be great for storing my digital photos and movies for for use with my Xbox One or PS4 for game storage/installs. If you can pick it up for this price, I highly recommend you do!

Great product and great deals at Bestbuy. Im always looking for ways to save money.

This external USB attached disk is EZ to use and the included backup software is also EZ to use. The description for this disk is for a desktop PC but I use it to back up my two laptops too. It is small enough to be portable as long as you have access to a 120v outlet. It is not USB powered.

Usage: transfer files from main drive to free up space... Main drive for classwork!

Ridiculous amount of storage. We got it to add space to the PS5. Works great with it.

Bought this on black Friday deal. Amazing product for a better price... Planning to each this in my NAS

Absolutely amazing piece of equipment. Easy to use and definitely recommend.

Really enjoying my 8Gb ext USB Hard Drive for my X Box One X wish they had a larger drive in stock that evening I would have totally gone with a larger drive with 4k Gaming NOW on X Box One C gonna be nice to have as much space as possible so I can download my entire DIGITAL XBOX LIBRARY

This hardrive Worked Well for what I needed it for.

Nice having 8TB of storage. But I have a network drive connected to my router. I can see it on all my Windows devices, but the WD Backup software could not see it. That was the drive I need backed up[,because I have mp3 and pics and other stuff on it. Contacted WD support no good kept referring me to their software that won't do what I want. Found Nero Back It Up sees all drives on my network. For an additional 39.99$ now working like I want.

I picked up 2 of these when they were on sale. One for each my wife and my daughter. My daughter hooked it up to her xbox one and away she went loading her games onto it. It was very seamless and has plenty of storage space. My wife uses hers for storing pictures, as she is a photographer on the side. It gives her an incredible amount of storage space for all her pictures. Again, she hooked it up to her computer, and away she went. Very easy to use. They have had them for 3 months now with no issues at all. Plug and play, very spacious drive for the avid gamer or photographer, or just anyone who would like the extra back up space.

It is a quick and simple way to provide more storage. Just plug-in and go. No complications. It has performed perfectly so far with no issues that I have been able to detect. Really good for a backup device.

Why spend money on another monthly fee for more and more cloud space when this is a one and done solution.

Everything we expected out of the unit. Yes its larger than the poket units, but the storage capacity is the limiting factor.

Western Digital *TB external USB drive - I only buy WD external drifves as I have never had a drive fail, they work all day long end up thrwoing them away when I need a larger size!

Product performs well and is easy to set up and use.