Customer Ratings & Reviews

Computer was failing and this came in handy to save our files

storage has gotten cheap - Need a large portable solution to see offsite backup for a NAS - worked flawlessly

Bought for a ps5 works great and will never run out of storage. Even has a fan to keep it cool while running.

I've purchased several of the Easystore drives over the past few years for archival and online storage. All of them have performed flawlessly with no errors or problems, and my oldest one still in service is over 2 years old. I never use included software (I always start new drives out with a full read/write error check and a reformat) so if there is any software included I can't attest to its usefulness or lack thereof - sorry. However, they function just fine as "normal drives" and you can add your own encryption software as desired. It might also be useful to know that these drives do not use any "hardware encryption" - if the enclosure ever becomes damaged, it is possible to simply remove the drive and install it into another enclosure in order to recover the data. Some WD and Seagate models do "on-chip" encryption in the enclosure, rendering the drive's data useless if the enclosure ever fails - this drive does NOT exhibit that behavior, which may be desirable to some buyers. For those curious, these drives use the helium-filled design that WD acquired from HGST. Most often you'll find a "white-label" (EMAZ/EZEZ) drive, but sometimes they will contain a "red-label" (EFAX) drive. There's no practical difference in performance between the drive models however.

Picked this up on Christmas Holiday Sale Priced. Not sure how you could beat the price for 8TB. Back-up software is simple and the same for the small 2TB to the 8TB..

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

Purchased this item during a sale, which makes the price per GB a great deal. I wanted to store my videos and be able to watch it on my phone. However, a NAS is required for this. I noticed that my router allows one to plugin a USB device and share the contents of that USB on the network. I had this item purchased before I checked if this was compatible w/ the router. And I was disappointed that it wasn't, and online sources say that the router only supports up to 3TB at most. Yet I was hopeful, so I transferred one file onto the hard drive and plugged it in on the router, and it worked! I was able to watch the video through the router! My TV, my phone, my other computer, all of them can access the external hard drive now. (W/ a big performance hit, though nothing to be surprised as the router isn't supposed to replace a NAS anyway) Overall, am really happy w/ the purchase, hopefully it'll last long while plugged in on the router.

Reasonably fast, reliable, doesn't produce too much heat and easy to setup.

I've used Western Digital drives for years in a variety of situations. They have been dependable and consistent.

This device works great!! I would highly recommend it!!

It’s a very good storage system but it is slightly louder than an average hard drive also it’s a lot slower so it takes longer to transfer a files.

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

Excellent external hard drive for the price. Will recommend to all my friends.

Good storage device, but sometimes freezes and have to force task end and retry.

I bought this and a 4 port USB hub for my son's playstation, with this he should no longer eat up the 1TB of internet we get with cox from being out of storage on his 500gb playstation and deleting games and reinstalling games to play with his friends, some of these games are well over 100 GBs and you will find yourself having to pay overage with your internet service provider, only thing I wish is that I could plug the hub in his playstation then plug this hard drive into the hub, but I can't do that, the playstation says the external hard drive has to be plugged directly into the playstations usb, it's no big deal since I have the hub also, if you're going to buy this for your child specifically for their playstation I would 100% recommend buying a 4 port USB hub also to use to charge controllers, heads sets, cell phones, cause after plugging in the hard drive they will only have 1 USB left on the playstation to charge up stuff, the $30 4 port USB hub I also bought from bestbuy plugs into the wall so its hot all the time, you can charge up everything even with the playstation turned off, they have cheaper ones that don't have outlets and are only hot when the playstation is powered on.

Have had it for almost a year and still use it to save all my photos and videos, and projects, does the job.

Back up Storecge garte to keep all my fotos safe and together

I've been encoding my entire BD and DVD library for months. Had to upgrade storage space. Tons on this drive. Formatted as xFat so I could use with both mac and Pc.

I'm using this to store downloaded files to save space on my computer. So far, so good. No problems with retreval.

This is an excellent hard drive, huge capacity and great speed. I have it attached to a QNAP NAS and when not in use it goes into sleep mode. Will buy another soon.