Customer Ratings & Reviews

If you are looking for an hdd and don’t need portability, then this hdd may be right up your alley. Quiet and effortless to use and setup. Works without any hiccups so far.

This is a great value especially if you are an elite plus rewards member I’ve had very good luck with these western digital drives and this drive presents a great value for holding all of my media for my home media server.

A good external hard drive. I really enjoy using it.

Another quality product from wd grr for those large video libraries to keep all in one place. Perfect for my small business to keep as a back up huge store at small price

I have a ridiculous amount of music so I need serious storage. And until SSD prices come down, I'm sticking with external, spinning, hard drives. I've been burned by Seagate before so I tend to lean WD. And with 8 TB storage, this is just the thing for my library.

WD is a reliable brand for my storage needs. This is my 3rd purchase of the same model.

Plugged it in and followed steps. Set up was easy. Initial upload took hours but now it uploads nightly and I feel better about my photos and videos being stored safely.

Purchased this to expand my NAS. From previous reviews and tests this is a great drive!

Goood value, durable and reliable. Alwaya go with WD

Western Digital make a wonderful product. It is easy to use and last a long time. I have used their products in several venues and have always found them to be superior to Lacie, gateway and other drives. It is indeed a best buy.

When I saw the price of this in the store and read the reviews others had left I knew this purchase was a no brainer! I bought it to use on my new iMac. I plan on doing a lot of video editing on the iMac and since that will now include 4k video I knew I needed to go big with an external HDD. This is indeed a Red drive hidden in the housing. I did have some issues getting both my old windows machine and my new iMac both recognizing the drive at the same time. A call to WD took care of that. The tech helped me get the drive visible on both machines so I could get all of my info off of the windows machine and then setup the drive to work on the new iMac. I will say that if you haven't accessed it for a bit that it's slow to start up again. It also makes a strange ticking noise. Took me awhile to figure out that the noise was coming from the drive. Don't lean it against a wall or you'll waste too much time trying to find the source of the drip behind the walls! It will take me quite awhile to fill this drive up since I already transferred all of my info from past computers to this one and I've barely touched the space.

This is a life saver a must have . I just wish you was able to view files from the cloud.

Works as advertised. This is my 5th WD external HD product. Never had a problem. Love it

This is a very shockable drive, it pops right out. They are still white label red drives but they are definitely air filled and not helium filled which means they tend to run a bit hotter. Either way when these go on sale I’m a sucker and buy to that I can shuck it like an oyster and pop it in my NAS.

Exactly what I wanted from an external HDD: good speed, tons of space (8TB!!!) and so far very reliable. Using the multimedia server quite a lot and it plays almost all formats. The only format I had problems with are 4k movies with Dolby vision.

I bought this drive to make room on my home "server." I serve music and movies from this drive, the capacity lets me store all my movies, all my music, all my photos, all my documents, and all my backups on one drive. I know it sounds risky, but I bought two, one as a backup. The drive was easy to set up (USB3), it's reasonably fast, and has enough capacity that I should be able to use it for years.

The product is excellent, very good value for money

Purchased this as extra storage for my PS4. Plenty of storage to download everything.

I like that it has 8 TB for a full backups of several of our systems but it makes a lot of noise and sounds clunking in the background while it's reading/writing. Not sure if this is normal. Our other WD products are quiet. Have to dismount it from auto backup because it is so noisy and loud. Then re-engage when needed. Not ideal since remembering to do so could be overlooked.

Only been using for a few months - the hope with hard drives is they run for years before failure. At this point I'm very pleased with it. The USB 3.0 is roughly 5 times faster than the earlier USB 2.0 drives. Copying and backing up is very fast.