Customer Ratings & Reviews

Works well, and with other HDDs, if you decide to shuck the drive and plug in directly.

It's great item and very beautiful design. There are more storage space than I need now. Eventually, I may need another one. At least, I know what to look for in the future.

Solid price and has been working non stop since I got it

I bought this for my son to expand his Xbox storage, and so far it has worked perfectly! It’s a great value considering the large storage capacity, I would definitely recommend it!

Great for the price point would recommend to others

TL;DR These harddrives REQUIRE fan cooling, but have non. They Idle at 65c. They will Fail from overheating. They have Cheap Harddrives inside instead of REDS. ------------------------------- These harddrives had sky rocketed to $250 thanks to the bitcoin craze and finally dropped down to a normal price thanks to the bitcoin crash. I finally got my hands on one for $180. I've heard nothing but good news about these drives since they have Helium filled 5000rpm WD reds in them and are shuckable. Unfortunatly WD has gone into full cheap mode and has started using cheap white labeled 7200rpm drives that are non shuckable and filled with air instead of helium. So they get hot, very hot. I took my new HD home and plugged everything in and the problems started. You get 7.270TB of usable data instead of the full 8.000TB. This really sucks since i could have bought two 5tb drives for $200 and gotten 9.070TB worth of storage since each 5tb drive has 4.540TB worth of storage space. I started transfering my data to this new harddrive. Data transfers at 90mb/s to 200mb/s which is good. These harddrives are loud. They click, clank and make all sorts of weird noises when in idle mode. Also when they vibrate i can feel i pulse from my desk. There wasn't anything wrong with the drives its just they're cheapy harddrives and are just loud and vibrate/rumble like an xbox or sony controller. I checked google and this is normal for these harddrives as well as for their more expensive black drives. Hardrives should be kept cool. Its why they have a metal top. For heat dispersion. I pluggged in my new 8tb drive and it idled at 32c which is great since HD's should stay in the 40c to 50c range. Anything above 50c and harddrives should slow themselves down to avoid cooking themselves. It took about 15 minutes, but i saw that this drive slowly crawled its way up from 32c to 65c during transfers!! I stoppped transfering data to see if the temps would drop and they never did. I unplugged this HD and let it cool by a fan and plugged it back in. Slowly at idle with no transfer's going on this HD crawled back from 32c all the way to 62c. putting my hand above the vent you can feel the heat like a frying pan just cooking this harddrive. I stuck a mini fan on top, started transfering data and watched the temp of this drive go from 65c down to 38c. With the mini fan on top i could feel the heat coming out of this enclosure and it felt like one of those personal heaters you buy during the winters. It took about 5 minutes for the enclosure to get down to 38c and the heat coming out felt felt really cool. This is unacceptable since WD should include a fan inside of this enclosure. I've decided that this is a bad design and refuse to do the work of WD, so i returned this 8tb easystore the next day. I'm going to buy two 5tb portable hardrives for $200 as my brother has a couple and they idle at 40c and go to 50c during transfers which is way cooler than these overheating 8tb easystores. Also i'll have 2gb of extra space. I've always used WD since seagate creates faulty drives, but when a company makes a bad product you have to call them out on it. These large disk easy stores are complete junk and should be redesigned with a fan in the case. buy at your own risk.

This was a great buy for 8TB. Easy to use to back up your computer. If you have every lost your pictures and info on your computer, you would say this is worth the money.

does everything that you would ask this to do easy to backup item from your computer to this drive without having to worry if your computer stops working.

One of the challenges anyone needing digital storing space is having the peace of mind that your photos and video files will be in a trusted location. The other challenge is having significant storage space, especially if you're using higher-end video recorders and DSLR cameras. Western Digital is an extremely reliable brand. My colleagues who do professional videography are limiting their digital storage media to very few brands with Western Digital at the top of the list. Having 8 TB at a great price from Western Digital is an ideal combination.

Great hard drive and it is even better when you buy as deal of the day.Software that came with it it is not the best but if second copy backup software is used make this drive better and easier to to back up documents with lot of options

Picked this up the other day for a great price. This will be used as the third system to complete my back up of data. It has a small footprint and is easy to use, just plug and play. You can use the apps that come with it to set up a backup system or just drag and drop Nice unit, recommend

What is there to say, 8TB of storage. What a world that can offer that much storage and the price has risen but then aren't all things going up. 35 years ago 8 MB was hard to imagine then they went to 20 MB, Thought it would never ever get this big. Waiting for the PB.

I was looking for additional external hard drive just for pictures, and already having another Western Digital for work purposes, the sale pricing on this was too good to pass up!

High density, great price and form factor. WD is also a reliable company as well and the best part is the internal drive is a high quality drive.

My daughter's computer crashed recently and she thought she'd lost all of her pictures since the birth of her now 8 year old daughters. Not wanting to go through that same stress. It's a comfort knowing I have all of my files backed up.

Massive storage for people who need the extra space. The only issue is that it has to be plugged into a power source which isn't a huge issue but can still be irritating if you don't have enough outlets.

I've purchased four of these and two of them were defective (while they did turn on, no computer would recognize them). For the two that did work, they've worked great -- fast transfers, and they seem fairly reliable so far. So, provided you get one that works, you'll probably be happy with it. I was lucky that I was able to return the two defective ones for a full refund to Best Buy before the return period was over...Western Digital customer service had told me that they'd only replace them with refurbished models with reduced warranties if Best Buy wouldn't take them back.

This is a wonderful product for storing large amounts of photos for photographers. Easy to use, comfortable on the price...on sale.

Got the space I needed for back-up, will do until I can set up a nas.

Great Backup, simple settings and easy to use. Just select the drive you want to get backup and let the software do it's job. You won't even notice while you are multi tasking on your pc that the backup is working on the background.