Customer Ratings & Reviews

Can't go wrong with an 8TB WD Red inside. Only worth it when on sale.

Easy to set up and use. Quick file transfer and easy to access files.

I purchased this external hard drive because I was running out of space on my laptop. It is fast when accessing information. Would purchase again if I fill this hard drive up.

Does what it's supposed to do. No hiccups so far. Maybe get another.

Plenty of space, 8TB. I use it to backup my pictures and documents.

This is just what I was looking for, Great product at a great price!

There is a WD 8tb Red inside. This is perfect drive for your server.

This 8TB drive is virtually silent while running and lightning fast over USB 3. I have two aging 4TB drives where I keep all of my data stored. A NAS drive would likely be a better option as I do redundant backups of irreplaceable data like photos of my children growing up and other highly treasured data. However, I’ve read too many horror stories of home NAS boxes failing and bricking all enclosed drives in the process, even if the drives were removed and tried elsewhere. So, I use two independent external drives and this drive fits the bill perfectly. With two of them running, you barely hear a thing. Copying nearly 4TB of backed.up data was effortless and fast. Throughput speeds are very nice. I’ve had no issues with the drive and it comes pre-formatted in NTFS. I use it with Win 10.

Good product worked as advertised. Did the job and does it well. Easy setup and got it working quick.

Requires power, expect to take up an outlet. Easy to use right out of the box. Great capacity, fast data transfer. Using mine as extended storage for PS4. Games play without issue, frees up my ps4 drive with plenty of room to spare

Step 1 - Buy this drive Step 2 - Take the WD Red drive out. Step 3 - Put it in your NAS. Step 4 - Profit. Literally.

Quiet and fast, it works! And has huge capacity. Would buy another.

8gb while this was on sale for 139. Great price for a ton of space.

High quality drive inside. Great value considering the Drive inside

It works like it should. At this price it is hard to beat the value

Needed for mass storage of my pictures etc for my genealogy project

Easy setup and a lot of storage. Can’t complain, got my money worth

We were looking for an external hard drive for our Xbox One this was the Best Buy we could find including looking online it was actually cheaper to go with an a terabyte than 4 terabyte really happy with it easy to hook up and use

I've only had this HD a few weeks but so far, so good. I purchased it as a backup drive for my home theatre media server, which is an older Mac Mini but running the latest version OS. BTW, I'm anxious for Apple to update the Mini so I can replace my old one. I use it for storing all my music, iPhone tones, Podcasts, and a ton of movies and video. All that content is stored on two external HD's so I needed an even larger HD to back everything up. I'd been looking at NAS servers but the price was a bit prohibitive right now. Then I saw this HD on sale at BestBuy and leaped on it. The drive spends most of its time stored in a cabinet and is only periodically connected to do a Time Machine backup, then again put away. My only dig was it being formatted FAT32, thus the 4 stars. It wasn't a problem formatting it, just an annoyance that in this age, with the ever increasing popularity of Apple's ecosystem in both the consumer and enterprise market that WD doesn't readily offer drives in Apple's format. Hopefully, I won't need to once again buy an even larger backup HD for a year or so without drive makers offering much larger HD's at a reasonable price. I imagine I'll eventually have to end up buying a NAS so I can more readily swap out its drives as needed, but for now, this Western HD is doing the job.

Ive had a lot of external hd's in the past, and recently jumped in to buy this because i wanted to use it as a media device on my network. 8TB is a lot of space.. only thing i dont like is the spin up time, it takes a bit to open. not too long, but i wish that time could be reduced. anyways its been reliable so far. no complaints.