Customer Ratings & Reviews

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

This is my 2nd WD external drive. I didn't use any of the built-in software so I can't elaborate on that. This drive works well for backing up my data. This drive is NOT for you if you want to move it around a lot. There are more durable high-capacity drives available if you want a portable option.

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.

Excellent storage for anything you make want. Even ps4!

great drives used in a nas contains wd white drives

Immense capacity, fast read/write (over USB 3.0). Very quiet and cool operation. Looks nice too. Very satisfied so far (needs to show that it's reliable over time, which I fully expect to be the case - I have had very good experiences with WD drives in the past)

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.

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

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.

Easy to use, no problems setting it up, on my iMac

Recently I started to realize that I had digital media, documents, music, and irreplaceable family photos stored all over my home office on a variety of devices. I have CDs, DVD's, thumb drives, SD cards, computer files, and yes cloud storage, even some old floppies. I also have that pile of actual paper photographs that I keep meaning to scan into my computer. Well I finally did something about it. I purchased the WD - easystore® 8TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive and have not regretted it once. It took a couple of days to sort everything out but I put it all on this device. I also backed up my wife's computer as well as mine, along wirh our laptop, and continue to do so and still have 81% of the drives capacity left. I chose this over a NAS device for it's portability. I will be purchasing a second unit to replicate this one for off site storage. I am completely satisfied with this purchase and highly recommend it.

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.

My mom loves WD and she had 2tb before so I upgraded her to a 8th and she loves this.

Great product It’s hard to believe you can get ahead 8 TB USB external drive for $160

Great product easy to set up and works great on any console as an external hard drive

For all of the photos that I take for my kids sports teams I just needed more space. This external drove is easy to use out of the box, allows me to have so more storage outside of my internal storage space. Great price would get another once I fill this one!

Great price and product. easy to set up . I am going to get another one and gift it.

Tons of storage for a great price! Highly recommend for backing up those large files.

I use this for a back up and store all my files so I have more memory on my computer

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.