Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great supersized backups (I bought two) fro a great price. Beat Newegg all to pieces when I got them on sale. Western Digital HD's.

So far it has worked as expected. WD and Seagate are my main go to products every time. Usually price and availability are the final boxes to check and whichever offers the best exchange in value wins over the other. ***When I first got it, I had to reformat it because there was a partition for the built in software I didn't care for. Otherwise you have two drives show up and it was annoying.

Pull the Drive out of the case and you have yourself a WD Red label Nas drive. Drive alone is more expensive. So this was a win win

Easy to use, good quality. I bought the 8TB as suggested by the clerk, and I'm glad I did.

I needed this hard drive to manage my expanding dj music video collection.

It is a large drive. I use it as a photo storage device. Transfers large files relatively quickly, not blindingly fast, but more than acceptable. It does make some noise.

Nice useful for ps4 works good for what i paid i got it on sale

I can always count on WD hard drive. Had to replace a not so old Seagate HD that failed.

The storage keeps going up as the price goes down. Easy to use and step up. Plug and play.

I've used Western Digital (WD) drives for years, desktop and laptop portable models, with no failures ever. I will stick with them.

Easy to set up; functioned right out of the box for transferring files from a desktop PC.

Great product! Easy to use! Even bought a second one as an additional backup!

Bought this as a gift for my dad who takes a lot of photo and video when he travels. Perfect for the new digital age format media

as far as external USB 3.0 hard drives go, this is about what you would expect as far as features go. what makes these drives special is what's actually on the inside. as of the time of this review, the 8TB version actually has a Western Digital Red NAS helium drive! these are usually much more expensive if you were to just buy the bare drive. although the higher quality build of the WD Red NAS drives is over kill for a USB 3.0 external hard drive, it's good to know that the insides are of higher build quality than your average external hard drive and with helium filled means it should run cooler too. although, on the topic of temperature, the enclosure provides zero active cooling, so if you left this drive on for several days, it does get very hot. that said, NAS drives should be able to withstand the heat as they are meant to be run in storage arrays full of hot hard drives. but, if you're conservative, I would not leave this thing powered on for several days at a time, at least not in it's USB 3.0 enclosure. but it's not a problem if you just want to hook it up for a few hours to run a backup or something like that. wait for the sales, and this becomes a WD Red/NAS gem in a el cheapo USB HDD disguise.

nice hard drive, good price. Have always had good luck with best buy and western digital

I needed a backup drive for my primary server, and this fit the bill nicely. Easy to setup and operate, and lots of bang for the buck. I hate to review storage in the short term as my feelings largely depend on how reliable the drive ends out being and how well the company supports its product if needed, but for now, I have no issues.

I am so glad for the return process. No hassles and essy

Awesome 8tb external drive for a low price. Best buy always have the best prices

This was an amazing deal. Jumped on it right away, told my brother, he bought one as well. I am 100% satisfied with my purchase.

I've been using the first 8TB WD External Drives since they came out, but they're noisy, they have no indicator lights that indicate they're in read/write mode or even that they have power, and they never spin down when used with media players and aren't being accessed. Their redeeming quality was that they're super FAST when used with exFat formatting, and of course their 8TB size. The newer easystore 8TB drives are MUCH quieter, they spin down when not being accessed while connected to a media player, and they're as fast as the original 8TB external drives from WD. I wonder if there's a software upgrade to make the older 8TB drive work like the easystore drives. They still won't have the lights, but it would be nice if they weren't always running at full tilt.