Customer Ratings & Reviews

Excellent drive. Very dependable. Easy to setup and load.

I needed the storage space. Right now it is a backup of stuff from a number of smaller external disks. I will get a second one which is a duplicate/clone of this one so everything is replicated in at least two places. If you get a large disk consider what you will put on it carefully because with only one disk on it but if that one disk fails you are in a word toast If half your stuff is on one disk and half on another one and one failes you are only half toast. Plan to backup the stuff on that new large disk somewhere. You can put it on several other disks or a second one of equal size but do NOT put everything on one disk. If you are a Mac user you can assign two disks to Time Machine and it will alternate backups to both disks.

Formatted easily for Mac using OS X Disk Utility. No apparent issues with the drive after the first two months of use. iTunes is rather slow to launch, although that seems likely due to the size of the library rather than any issues with the drive itself. Mfr warranty is two years -- will followup if issues arise within warranty period.

Quality Product perfect for storing large amounts of data

Literally does its job, providing additional space for me

Price was right and chase 10x points made it even sweeter

Its large enough to fit everything i want to fit on there

Setup was easy as plug-n-play. Read/Write speed is quick. I wish there was easier to understand instructions on the individual settings and sharing options.

This drive is about half the price of the other WD 8tb drive with the online storage which wasn't a need for us so we grabbed a few of them to consolidate data from a bunch of lower capacity external drives. Paid about 150 each about a month ago. Transfer speed was great. They all had WD Red 8tb drives in them, which cost more as a bare drive than we paid for each of these externals. Only negative is they'er a tiny bit louder than our other drives. Not the constant running sound - but the occasional clicks that it makes during drive activity like copying files to it. They're pretty noticeable pops sometimes. Definitely not a dealbreaker for us but if this is going next to a computer in a bedroom it might be worth considering.

Good drives, I shucked them and use them in my NAS really good value for the product. Easy to shuck and use. Been running fine for close to a year now.

Was fast transferring from older one. Great for the cost.

Easy hook up transfer great space and storage not to big

What's not to love? In most instances you get a WD RED drive (256mb cache if you get one from Thailand) for over $100 less than the internal version plus a decent external usb 3.0 case. Cooling/air flow could be better in the case but it does the job well enough. 2 Year warranty vs 3 for the internal but otherwise it's all positives.

I use this drive to backup my media and it's been great!

At the price that Best Buy charged for this 8 TB external hard drive, it is remarkable. The drive works perfectly. I put two of these in my computer and now have at total of 24 TB of hard drive space to play with.

i love the wd easy store lots of storage at a good price

I did a little research on the best external drive to use for storage and this one came highly recommended from several sites I visited. It was easy to attach to my PC and is working flawlessly.

Nice product. Easy to setup. Works just fine with Alexa.

A lot of space in there 8TB, enjoying very much. Thanks.

I bought this to serve as a replacement for my backup disk, which was giving signs of imminent failure. Setup was quick and easy and I had it up and running in no time.