Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great product. Easily connected to computer and works fast.

Really quiet and runs smoothly. Does not seem to run too hot.

Bought this to replace an aging storage drive ready to give up the ghost. Plug and Play setup and was able to back up the old drive. USB3 didn't take forever and a day to copy over.

It is mechanical, but for saving important files it is excellent. recommended

My family has years of pics and videos on their phones and as you can imagine, each one's free 5GB cloud space is maxed out. So I found this product and the price was awesome! So awesome that I decided to go with it, knowing I didn't necessarily need 4TB, instead of the 1TB. It is rock solid and I am happy I made the purchase. Definitely would recommend it to others, especially if you can find it on sale.

I purchased this WD 4T extern drive for my laptop. It’s the second one I’ve purchased over the past few years and I’m completely satisfied with the performance of this product.

I bought this drive a couple years ago and it's worked great as additional storage for my photo libraries, music & video files, etc. Good deal for the price. ** This comes formatted as exFAT, which is technically compatible with both Windows and Mac, but at least with my iMac is is noticeably slower. If you are using a Mac, be sure to reformat it before you use it.

I thought my older generation My Book 4TB had given up the ghost recently and I like to keep my games on my HDD so I can play them on a whim. My Xbox would not recognize the drive at all. So I went out and bought this version of the My Book to replace it and started downloading the games again to get back where I was before (took a week, ugh). Since I had my replacement, and my original drive was out of warranty, I decided to crack open the case on the old one and do some diagnostics using WD's tools to see what happened. The drive passed all tests...including the heavy duty (9 hours!) test. So I used the utility to perform a low level format, and when I plugged it back into the Xbox (without the enclosure) it was recognized and reformatted just fine. I believe something went wrong with the little controller board inside the enclosure, so now I am using it as my own backup of my games in case it happens again. Something to try before throwing it out! This drive seems to work fine, but I do miss the the activity light the old enclosure had.

The WD my book is the answer for massive storage solutions for a competitive price and ease of use.

I have always suffered from some sort of memory loss. My first 1 TB Seagate died 2 years into it's life and my recent WD 2TB died 5 years into it's life. My grandfather had Alzheimer's and that's probably why I think I have major memory problems too. I'm not sure if it is hereditary or just bad luck on my part but I can't remember a dang thing, like my WD 2 TB drive is over 3 years old and needed to be replaced prior to failure. So in year 5 of my drive my 2 TB drive starts having problems remembering things, like how to boot up and I start to panic because I had forgotten to back up my data! 2 TB of data is a lot of stuff to back up. As a side note, I realize that my grandfather had Parkinson's not Alzheimer's and he was my grandmother's second husband so there is not blood relation nor hereditary traits passed on to me. I just forget things easily, most likely from my early childhood trauma. Regardless, I ordered this 4 TB hard drive the day the other one started failing, had my wife pick it up at Best Buy and by the skin of my teeth was able to connect my old 2 TB hard drive and have it boot up one last time so I could copy over all of my files onto my new hard drive. The only negative is that my computer only has USB 2.0 and not USB 3.0 so the transfer literally took 2 days! Overall, I'm impressed. I downloaded the security app that comes with the hard drive so one has to enter a username and password to access the data, or maybe just a password, I forget. I would highly recommend this television to anyone that has memory problems like me. Sorry, that was a bad joke, I recommend this hard drive.

What a find, just what I was looking for…and boy has cost dropped and capacity when up.

Nothing but praise for this expansive hard drive that is easy to operate and extremely reliable.

Used this to store games I purchased on the Nintendo eshop before it closes in March

Easy setup, great price and very easy to use for backing up all my videos and photos!

Very good quality at a reasonable price. You won’t be disappointed.

It is an improvement over older WD My Book models. Very fast and completely silent.

If you take thousands of photos and need extra room on your hard drive,you will love this one. I will probably not need another one,since this has so much room on it!

I was in need of having one place to keep all my pictures and documents. I had over 15 thumb drives until I made this purchase, now everything is in one secure place.

very large hard drive at a good price, the only problem is my computer doesn't boot up if it's plugged in, have to plug it in after start up. for some reason my mother board won't start up with larger hard drives than 2 gb

I bought this hard drive for use with my Playstation4. For the price, I couldn't go wrong. Installed very easily and creates a ton of extra storage on my console.