Customer Ratings & Reviews

Very good capacity, no issues during initial hook-up, used as a back-up to files, movies, and pictures.

I own seven of these for use in cloud storage and they never have let me down.

This 8T drive is great for backing up system, application, and personal files.

I bought this HDD after reading several reviews stating that it has a WD Red drive inside, and it does. At $180 it is a huge deal. The drive can get pretty warm since it uses passive cooling, but I'm not too worried about it since I will be using it to perform a once a month backup from my NAS and then I will store it offsite until the next month. I highly recommend this drive.

It's the best product. I loved it because I could buy it at reasonable prices.

As a video producer, I purchased a few of these for “deep storage” of my work.

Drive works as expected. Best price around for 8TB hard drives. Will buy more.

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!

Best HDD for NAS I bought two from best buy. Satisfied with price and quality

Worked exactly as I hoped it would; 1/2 off the price convinced me to buy it.

Very easy to use, copy file quickly. I like it. Buy it again when it’s fulled.

Good price, a bit to bulky,Does what it supposed to do

This Western Digital External hard drive is perfect. 8tb is a lot of storage.

Exactly what I wanted, 8 million gigabytes . No excuse not to do backups now.

Worked perfectly and I appreciate the great customer service.

Excellent hard drive. Works flawlessly connected to my router. And super fast

Easy to setup. Item as described on page. Excellent for videos and pic storage

I download a lot and need to back it up. This drive serves the purpose well.

This is a very nice product by WD. I like the mini size but still very fast.

Works well for my music. Salesperson was very helpful to suggest this model.