Customer Ratings & Reviews

Easy to connect and use and natively works on Macs. It is very quiet in operation and powers on/off with the computer and can be set up for sleep mode. Downsides: It has a proprietary (USB) connector cable so you don't want to lose or forget to keep the cable with the drive. Also there is no power light or indicator so you don't know if it's powered on unless you look on the computer. Also, you will need to use the provided (installed on drive) WD tools instead of the Mac Disk Utility app to manage some functions - not sure about PC's. Despite the noted downside issues it's a very good drive - I've bought a few of them for various computers we have and wouldn't hesitate to buy another.

After only a couple of weeks of using this drive, it started clicking consistently. It sounded like the drive was failing. I bought a second drive, and that one lagged and had connection issues. This seems to only happen with the WD 8TB drives. I have used the WD My Book 4TB drives for years with no problems. I returned to those and will stick with those!

Western Digital has always been reliable for drives, external or internal. This external drive lives up to the name. It's been working great and provides lots of space.

This unit has excellent storage capacity for the price. I do have a bit of an issue that is yet unresolved. It may be a problem on my end, but my computer doesn't recognize it on startup unless I boot with the unit unplugged. Boot, then plug it in and it works fine. It's probably just so huge it overwhelms my system. It's a little slow to wake up at times, but once it does its plenty fast to play video but editing is slower. I would not use it for storing something I'm working on, only finished products. Overall, it's a decent drive and I'm sure my problems are on my end as I am using a computer I built 5 years ago, so, ol girl's got some miles on her. I'd still buy it again!

Bought this a few months ago as a backup drive. Purchased the 8tb version. Looks and performs great! WD drives are the way to go in my opinion.

Too bad it lacks an access LED, but this uses WD blue drives inside, which perform much better than the archive level drives used by seagate. I own now 6 of these and they all perform well so far.

I am a photographer that makes photographs with large files. This 8T drive is just what I wanted. It is easy to set up and maintain. I highly recommend it.

I've purchased dozens of these over the years. Very reliable and inexpensive data storage. Will be buying more in the future for sure.

I purchased this 8TB WD drive when a similar Seagate drive crashed. A few observations about this drive. It is somewhat noisy, mainly vibrations transmitted from the base. I rested it on a rubbery pad to deaden the noise to a degree. It takes my computer much longer to start up since this drive was attached. This drive seems to 'sleep' and require time to reconnect more than the Seagate. Once started, access times are acceptable. I have had it about a month with no issues beyond these.

I have 2 of these drives. Primary use is as a main back up for smaller portable drives that I take on location with me for big weekend photo shoots. They work but are slow and clumsy when attempting to save large amounts of data to them and slow to retrieve images. I am in the process of replacing them with a better, faster and more reliable drive.

Great value for 8TB hard drive. If you need an external drive with lots of space at value price, you cannot go wrong with this one.

Good drive with lots of space. Hooked it up to an old Mac Mini to serve files and perform network backups. Has worked great so far.

On my iMac it was plug and play. And is fast. The HD works great and I have no complaints. For sure I recommend this HD

I was able to move over 1,000 movies from several drives onto this device, saving me space and energy. The USB 3.0 interface is fast and I can play videos directly from the drive.

Ease of use, hopefully this one last longer than my last external hard drive. Love the extra space.

I absolutely love this! I am a photographer and needed a good hard dive to leave at home! It is very easy to use and has 8TB of space!

Bought 4 of these to replace 4 TB hard drives.. All have been running for 4 months with no issues.

You really can't beat these drives for the massive amount of storage. Not the fastest but fast enough with USB 3 for any archive purpose. Great value as well $/mb

Western Digital provides great portable backup storage units like My Book and My Passport. It is inexpensive but works great. I never experienced any crash.

Reasonably priced, runs smooth and quite. Has also fallen off a 4 foot shelf a couple time and still runs like new.