Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought this for my PS4 as an extended HDD. Works great. Using it for almost a year now. Never had any issues with slow gameplay etc.

Everything is fine with this Hard drive except for the noise. if you are planning to put it on you desk. be prepared for the sound of the internal hard drive working

It’s not the top of the line but it’s great for the price. Louder and not quite as fast as my old 2TB My Book. Having said that, I’m not disappointed with this purchase at all.

I bought this product to back up video files I work on in presentations. I have done a lot of video editing I want to save for future use and find this product is fantastic for an external drive.

……however, if you read my other WD HD review, you'll know that I've switched to 10TB (mostly) WD Drives since they have come down so far in price.

This Western Digital 8 TB External Hard Drive does everything I need it to do. This is my second WD purchase and I am very satisfied. Main use is to store music, movies and pictures.

Never enough space - always need more! No one wants to delete files, or clean up their drives, pictures, other media, etc - so this is a great deal! It should take a little time to fill up 8TB (but I'm sure I will).

HUGE capacity - much cheaper than solid state - will use as a backup drive

This drive fired right up and was recognized within seconds. Drive is a little bit loud when you have to work next to it. Placed it on an old mouse pad and it's quiet.

Works great! Does the auto-backup as advertised for my Apple MacBook Pro. And, I sectioned it of into eight different/separate partitions.

I have a 4tb version of this and the 8 gives me more space. You can never have enough storage. Great external drive for the price.

I use these external hard drives to store videos, etc. This drive has good speed and plenty of storage space. I've bought the same drive before, so I know this one will be a good drive as well.

Works fast and love the 8TB of storage. I'm able to back up all my devices.

love this. i currently use this for my playstation 4 and its works good . nothing better than fast download times and lots of storage.

This product is perfect for backing up all my files.

A lot of storage at a low price. The password security is a must. I feel good that my data is well protected. WD did it right.

Got this because I wanted to have one drive in house to backup all my files and in terms of its capacity it is great. Don't know when I would full this up but that was the idea. Right after I bought this I switched from windows to Mac and was happy that it was formatted to read both files but after maybe a day or so I kept hearing this humming noise and came to find out that it was the noice from the disks spinning. Didn't like that so I returned it and for the 6tb. Same brand but no noise

So glad there was an affordable option for a high capacity external hard drive. I kind of wish the power cord was longer but that is just me being picky :) great product!

I bought this when it was on sale to back up my PS$ games. Basically a good deal and I always try to back up everything with some type of external drive.

This model is louder than the 4 TB I have (same model), which was all but totally silent. Hope this isn’t a bad sign, but I’ve always found WD drives reliable.