Customer Ratings & Reviews

Plugged it in to AC power and the USB port on my MacBook Air (with USB-C to USB-A adapter) and it fired right up. No complaints at all about the drive. I am hoping to get several years of service from this drive.

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.

Great brand, very reliable. I got this one to replace my old 1 tb which i had for about a decade, before i had a single issue

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 bought this to store files. It now allows me to store files after I plugged it into my computer. I'd give it an A+ for storing files.

Always a little early to review, since I purchased less than a month ago. This drive is hanging off my router to be accessible by two Win10 pc's, plus a Linux server. Since it is not a cloud device, getting it shared was not easy, which is why I rated it 4 stars. If you are not tech savvy, go for a different version. I also purchased this because of the other reviews that says this contains the highly rated WD Red drive in it.

I was running out of space so I purchased this external hard drive. When I purchased it, it still came with a Western Digital Red hard drive inside it that uses CMR instead of SMR.

This drive is filled with 4K movies and has function flawlessly for going on three years. Excellent value.

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

This drive which I got for the storage capabilities is phenomenal. The interface is simple, read/write is quick, the system is very responsive and with 8TB, plenty of storage for my movies and such. The internal drive alone is worth more than I paid for the entire unit. Awesome!

works great for my needs. easy to setup an transferring files was a breeze.

Purchased this on sale as my first external harddrive. I expected lightening fast computer recognition when connected but it took several minutes. But I kept replugging it because it did not show up as an available drive quickly enough. Once it showed up, I used it to back up my hard drives. The best part is that I took it over to my 4k tv and plugged it in the usb3 port and there was my entire harddrive. I could select movies to watch and it would load and play them flawlessly. Took it to a friends house and connected to his computer and it showed up very fast. LOVE the size. You can never have too much storage.

Found this on sale and I thought the price was very reasonable. Very easy to use and WD is an extremely reliable brand. Replaced a 3 TB WD Drive that lasted me for years.

BB has lowered this drive's price on 20 days of doorbuster cheaper than BF and this was the lowest price so far $139.99. Love it. You can use immediately out of the box if you are Windows users, The drive includes the apps for you to check bad sector, S.M.A.R.T, etc... (you can download on WD website anyway). Rumor and confirm that inside is RED with 256mb cache, great price if you plan to buy multiple drive for your NAS.

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

It’s amazing that you can get an 8 TB drive now for so cheap and it is fast for the size and what I’m using it for which is for a back up I’m really happy that I was able to get this when I got it thanks Best Buy

The drive is quiet and performs well. Lots of storage at a low price. My only drawback is that I wasn't able to connect it to my router and use it as an online drive, but that may be because I didn't spend enough time trying to get it setup correctly for that type of use.

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.

I have had several WD Easystores over the years and have yet to have one fail on me. Large storage for my filmmaking for a good price. Highly recommend.

I bought this product on Black Friday of this year for $169.99. It’s great for storing my digital media collection of about 5TB but I was intending to use it for a media hub on my Xbox One. For some reason, the device stops reading files on the drive on the console. They’re on the drive, but the Xbox One does not recognize them. I don’t know if it’s a problem with the console or the product itself, but it is a letdown.