Customer Ratings & Reviews

this external harddrive is great. A very good buy.

Bought this for a PS4, does as intended, adds plenty of space for downloaded games.. doubt I'll run out of space now.

Good product for thisprice. I like how everything works.

First one purchased was defective.. the connector on the hard drive did not line up. Thankfully BB swapped it out for me.. I have the same drive I purchased 2 years ago.. still going strong.. these are connected to the Xbox x and Xbox 1

Hard Drive is working just fine. This is my second hard drive of this size.

Working as Time Machine for Mac Mini has been great.

Have used WD externals before and this was a great price on sale for an 8tb drive. Needed something this big for digital backups. Could also be taken out of case and used as internal drive

It is nice to have the piece of mind that all of my data is safe on this external hard drive. Data transfers are quick, and it's nice to have it connected to my NAS using the USB 3.0 port.

Excellent storage and all the storage space i needed to use for my PS4.

Super easy to shuck and install, no need to even cover the pins like older versions. Shuck, plug in, and boot up!

I love these drives and have several of them. I haven't had good success with the reliability of other brands, but WD has never let me down.

This backup is working great for my primary video/animation workstation. The size helps backup the large video drives nightly.

This is my 2nd 8TB drive, as the first one failed. This one is supposed to backup my computer, but it won't go into backup mode. I'm sure it is operator error.

I used to think 2tb was enough then I moved on to 4tb now that my music and movies have outgrown my 4tb this is the next stage in digital storage. You can not go wrong with a WD product.

Good hard drive. Get it on deal of the day. Runs good and avout 130 megabyte per second trasfer over usb 3.

Overall Review: Bought two 10 gig on sale to build a poor man's RAID1. I'm a recording engineer and I need to backup my WAV files. (You'd be surprised how often I get the "do you still have that recording you made for me 4 years ago" call) I didn't want any hardware encryption ala the My Book Duo and its associated horror stories, just backup. Zip tied two of these together, and use FastCopy to move the files.Since these have no built-in fans, the drives run a little warm. It's probably OK, but my OC nature was looking for reassurance. So with more zip ties, I added a 80mm fan on top of the two enclosures. I used a magnetic bearing fan that runs super quiet (as a recording engineer, I hate loud fans). Wanting to get the fan away from the drives, I zipped the fan on top of a "chimney". (Zip ties: the engineer's duct tape.) Probably not necessary, but remember I'm Mr. OC. The fan runs || with one enclosure's power supply. Looks janky but works great: cool, quiet, cheap. Now I'm just hoping both drives don't die at the same time.

Needed to increase storage capacity for a home office. This met my needs nicely.

These have been popping up on sale lately for between $149 to $199 which makes these a steal. If you just need a back up drive, you get a ton of storage for a great price. In my case, I needed it to replace a dead drive in my NAS. Inside these (as of writing) are standard size WD Red drives which are perfect for my needs. At the sale price, it's significantly less than buying a retail 8tb WD Red. Local Bestbuy had them in stock and staff was great.

this harddrive provide me with plenty of storage for all my media needs. its reliable, fast, and compact

I back up my pc to this, then back this up to cloud. This is not the first WD I have used, and I have been problem free. I would buy again, if needed. That's a lot of bytes for the money.