Customer Ratings & Reviews

The WD easystore external hard drive is a sturdy and reliable one for its reasonable price. It offers decent transfer speeds for moving and copying files. If only external SSDs were more affordably priced in that storage size, that would be a more viable alternative for content creators.

I have purchased a number of these drives and all of them have been quiet and with the large size it can fit a lot of my photos. I make sure to have off-site backup as well just to prevent data loss since all hard drives will eventually fail.

As I’m sure you might have known, these are the external hard drives that have WD Red NAS drives inside them. Apparently they aren’t guaranteed, but I have now purchased 4 and all of them did. Very easy to pull off enclosure, just look on YouTube.

I purchased a number of these drives over the past 12 months for my network. These drives are a great value ($/TB). The USB 3.0 is great for fast and large file transfers if you do not intend on shucking the drive and using it as an internal.

Cheapest 8TB drive you can buy along with western digital quality, can’t be beat.

I bought this to extend the storage, and backup my laptop PC, which is a few years old. Even with USB 2.0 ports, file transfers are fast, and 8 TB is over 8x my hd space, so it's worked great for that. But I can't get my Sony Blu Ray player and the 8 TB mini-tower to connect, so it doesn't work for watching movies with my older Sony TV or Blu Ray. Took off one star for that. Still satisfied with product.

More than enough room for 9k photos. I use this to back up & store all of my work!

This is a very good price for an 8TB WD Drive. It works well and is fairly fast.

Great recent price on this ginormous external hard drive. Perfect backup device.

Purchased for the 8TB Red drive. Shucked the External case and placed in my NAS.

Is what I expected so far, Still learning the different things that can be done.

it is a good external drive, tons of space, good for backup use. a little noisy.

always love western digital hard drives,higher gigs the better.fast and reliable.

This Western Digital Hard Drive is great quality and bought it at a great price.

This was purchased as a replacement to a 6TB WD external drive that I use as a Time Machine for my Mac. After two years on that old unit, it started to give me trouble -- finally, six months later, it died. I don't like spending money on what is, essentially, a 2-year lease for a hard drive, but I have to have a backup. Let's hope the last one was a fluke and this one works out for a few more years.

I had the older 3tb model which worked great for years, but after I bought a fourth hard drive, I needed to increase my backup space to something above 6tb. This was the perfect choice! It's really much smaller than it looks. The only negative is that it's not USB-powered, and has to be plugged into the wall, but that's to be expected with something powerful like this. Some people say that it's loud, but I honestly don't hear it. Probably because it's sitting at the end of my desk, right next to the PC tower. It doesn't include its own backup software, which the earlier model did (and it wasn't good). I personally recommend AOMEI Backupper, as it's much faster with more options than many others, and the free version works perfectly. Always keep your data backed up!

I got this for use with my ps4. No problems at all. Finally enough space for now.

The drive is working great and I ran it 24/7 without any problems or slow down.

Very intuitive and easy to use,it exceeded my expectations in terms of quality.

I love this drive. It has red drives which is vey good for NAS systems. 5 Star.