Customer Ratings & Reviews

We've been buying these drives for 4 or 5 years. One 4TB even survived a car wreck, it's a little beat up but still does fine. That's not a guarantee that your hard drive will survive a car wreck... but they've been great for us. We have 30-40 of them.

Works great and is very fast for backups. Password protected data is a plus.

I purchased this Western Digital external hard drive as a way to backup my Xbox. When I upgraded to the Xbox One X. This external hard drive worked flawlessly to backup my data and restore it onto my new Xbox. Thank you Western Digital.

This external hard drive works great with the native Windows backup software, but also comes with a more user-friendly backup software stored on the device. Transfers are fast as long as the devices plugged into a USB 3.0 Port, usually denoted with blue color.

Quality affordable consumer backup drive. You will need to erase and re partition it for Apple though. We recommend replacing these every three years and keeping the old one as a backup!

Performs as advertised; good price and performance.

works great as expected!! Would definitely do it again!! Oh, Wait!! I did buy an 8 TB WD HD just a week or so before this one!! LOVE them BOTH!!!

Added this to my PS4, it works flawlessly and allowed me the room to install games and apps that were not able to be used. USB cable was long enough to run behind everything so is mostly out of site and the drive is very quiet.

Got this for my son. His PS4 was full. This was easy to set up and use by a 13 year old boy. He was able to free up space on his PS4 without deleting his games and all their huge updates.

Hard to know what to say other than the price was right and the hard drive works as intended. Obviously not as fast as a(n) SSD but sufficient for my needs.

Drive is performs as advertised and is pretty quick at backing up files with the USB3 standard. Works out of the box with WIndows and has the capacity I needed.

I upgraded from a USB 2.0 WD drive (that has served me faithfully for years) and expect the same reliable -- though much faster -- performance with this one. Backup on the old drive took almost an hour, now it takes under 20 minutes.

This was easy to set up. However, I can hear when it is running and it does slow the computer a little when actually doing the back up. I have it set to back up every hour so for a couple of minutes every hour on the hour the computer runs slower. I could not find any setting to run the backup program at a lower priority.

I use it primarily for backup on my MacMini computer with Apple Time Machine. I have not had a single issue with the drive. I had to reformat the drive to work on my Mac but if you set it up to be used with Apple Time Machine software the program will automatically reformat the drive.

Geek Squad set it up for me, and it's doing nightly back ups. Also has full back up from 2 older pc's. My only concern is that files take up more room here than on the pc. Everything seems to round up to the next MB. Fortunately it's a 4T external drive so I don't expect to run out of room.

This back up drive is the best. It holds all my sons games. Before he had to delete a ton of games to be able to store new games but since we purchased this backup drive we can keep all the games.

Connected it to my laptop USB 3.0 computer found it. I have been using it as an extra drive. It's very fast. It just work well.

Have been so happy with the first that I purchased a second. I've found the Western Digital (WD) drives to be more reliable than Seagate, both for internal snd external drives.

I set this up as a back-up device for my desktop about 3 weeks ago. It replaced a "WD Mybook Live Duo" that died after about 4 years. The new drive was simple to set up and has worked flawlessly.

Purchased 4 T drive for under $100. Remember when 1 T cost more than $1,000. Appears to work well and is 2.0 and 3.0 USB compatible. Works more like a backup than an additional drive.