Customer Ratings & Reviews

Very easy to set up and use. Had it up and running in just a few minutes.

Bought this for my Xbox Series X. There is plenty of space for all of my games.

Works as it should good buy on sale. No problem at all so far

8 terabytes of USB 3 storage. Have not tried the included backup software as I just need it for the tremendous amount of space.

Wish I could have picked it up as a door buster for 129.99 but even at 159.99 on that Saturday, it beat the MSRP cost of 299.99

This is a really great external hard drive,,,especially if you get it on sale.

The external hard drive was worth the buy. It provide more space than needed.

This external hard drive works exceptionally well for what I needed it for I would highly recommended this external hard drive.

I have used many brands of hard drives over the years and have found Western Digital to be the best overall. I have had very few to fail on me. Concerning this one, it is quiet and easy to connect to just about any device without any trouble. The transfer speed through USB 3.0 is also good. I really don't have anything bad to say about it

Purchased for Unraid. A great storage drive. NOT helium, fyi, but that's ok.

It's always a relief when a computer product works right out of the box, and the WD Easystore 8TB was truly "plug and play." It is serving very well as a backup for a NAS. It was offered at a really great price, I ordered it online and it was at my local Best Buy when it was supposed to be. That's the way business should function. Nice work!

Nice hard drive. Fast, plenty of storage and quiet. I like it and I'd recommend it.

Good product. Easy to use and set up. Easily save photos and other information

Terrific deal on a quality 8Tb which can be used outside the enclosure! Attractive enclosure and fast read& write performance.

I bought two and ended up shucking them for my Plex drive. They both ended up being white labels and needed the 3-pin tape trick for them to work, but they work just fine. They both have been running since November non-stop without issue. I would definitely recommend this for anyone looking for big storage needs.

I'm sure it's good, my last one was great until the plug quit working. Now, the strange thing about this is I just picked up the new hard drive at 5pm yet this review request was sent to my email about 1pm. Strange right?

We purchased this to back up our home computers and laptops. So far the easystore has lived up to its name. It was absurdly easy to set up and use, and has performed flawlessly so far. I can definitely recommend purchasing the easystore if you're looking for a quick and reliable way to back up your computers/data.

We purchased this to back up our home computers and laptops. So far the easystore has lived up to its name. It was absurdly easy to set up and use, and has performed flawlessly so far. I can definitely recommend purchasing the easystore if you're looking for a quick and reliable way to back up your computers/data.

I bought three of these drives to do what many others have done; shuck them and use them in a NAS RAID array. Shucking isn't as easy as it looks on the YouTube videos, but it's doable. I managed to get it right by the third drive. Many, many people, including YouTube channel creators and magazines have noted that these external drives contain WD Reds! Well, imagine my surprise when I found that in two of the three external drives were WD drives with a plain white label, not Red. The white label drives, as long as the purchased drive is marked on the box as a "Product of Thailand", does have 256MB cache. Further, though these two drives aren't "Reds" per se, my new QNAP TS-451+ NAS has no problem working with them. As I write this, the NAS set up no problem and is building the RAID-5 array and should be done in a few hours. I do think these drives are worth it if you want to build a NAS and don't mind shucking them. Don't do what I did. Shucking them without snapping tabs inside the enclosure is easy once you know how. Take it slow, and don't try to pop the sides up. Once pressing on the two retention tabs with a solid object like a credit card, you just have to slide the wraparound cover off. The inside actually rides on rails inside the wraparound cover. I don't know anything about any of the software or throughput features of this drive because I never turned them on. They're worth it for an 8TB drive that costs way less than $200. If you get a WD Red, even better!

Really working good, holding my large itunes music collection. Definitely recommend.