Customer Ratings & Reviews

Fast and a ton of space finally. The only thing is the new Macbook Pros do not support USB so you'll need a converter to USB C.

I've used this for several years as back up for film production files. It hasn't disappointed me!

Awesome hard drive. Absolutely love it. Can't beat it for this price.

Easy setup. Nothing special about the casing, it's pretty. Small and compact.

THE WD - My Book 8TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black IS A GREAT ADDITION TO MY APPLE MAC PRO EXTERNAL STORAGE.

It works well. I use it to back up my photography and video media.

I am pleased to have purchased a My Book 8TB, which allows me to store large files off my computers drive.

I have 2 4TB drives in this same series (using one to back up my Qnap NAS). I needed this 8TB to back u my growing data on the NAS. Works good and USB3.0 FAST.. The proprietary USB cable is included - and the only really NEGATIVE thing about these models (maybe so its to deter using a normal USB cable that is TOO LONG to ensure proper data transfer..? idk ?)

Large external drive for storage. Much better than having to have many smaller ones. Easy to hook up to computer.

Excellent for photo storage and use with photo editing tools. Finally a nice way to archive and manage photos.

I am not tech wizard this was a easy setup and I love the password protection

Simple and easy to plug and play. Transfer all your files and store them away in all the space you need.

I have bought several of these HD’s and they have never given me ant trouble so far. I will continue to buy them.

Super easy to set up with my Mac! Love the amount of storage for the price.

I'm using this with Acronis software to back up my desktop. It holds plenty of files and so far is working fine.

Great hard drive easy to use. Was exactly what was looking for to store all my movies on for home theater.

It was everything that I expected for the use I needed

I needed a small hard drive to store files in. This works great. It’s small sturdy and very fast.

We've been using and recommending the My Book series for years with great success. Recently, I needed to upgrade an older Seagate external drive so, when this went on sale, I bought one. Setup and installation went quickly and I set up a backup task to move folders from existing drives to this drive. After a couple of days, DriveDx began to show degraded drive performance. Not significant enough to warrant returning the drive but we'll monitor the drive's statistics closely. What makes it troublesome/concerning is that this degraded performance showed up within days of copying the files to the drive. We have smaller My Book drives on the same computer one of which is about 2 years old and the other about 4 years old. Neither have shown any degraded performance over the life of the drive.

I haven't had any problems with this drive. I plugged it in and was able to use it right away. Very simple.