Customer Ratings & Reviews

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.

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

Works great. No conplaints at all. This review needed more characters.

Love it it holds every thig love it had to get thiss tooo

Great accessory. This item is exactly what was wanted for Xmas. It is a very great item.

Used to store pics of the family and I won't have to worry about it every filling up. Easy to set up and use. Highly recommended!!

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.

Excellent back up drive works extremely well definitely worth the money

Great Hard drive! Holds up a lot of content and files, but for some reason this one all of a sudden reads “Your computer cannot read this hard drive” and ive had to get another one. Hopefully this one will be good!

Bought it for my Xbox one and was very easy to connect and to transfer information to it.

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.

Bought it to hold games as an extension for my Xbox Series X console and it works very well.

It got the job done and works fine. Its more than enough space for most things

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.

Excellent product, easy to set up the backups. Owned for 1 month and working great so far.

Easy setup, easy to use right out the box. a very simple plug & play.

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

Western Digital never disappoints use this for commercial use so it’s on 24/7

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

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