Customer Ratings & Reviews

Excellent back up storage space for photos and fast also. Bought this to store sport photos I take, downloads and uploads quick and lots of storage for tons of photos.

Excellent! Easy setup, very fast bought a second one the next day for another computer.

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

WD backup drives are the most reliable ones i have used, I have both an 8TB and a 4TB one and they work perfectly. As a computer tech, I think everyone who uses a computer should have an external backup drive, the cost of data recovery in the event of a hard drive failure is astronomical, why pay $1000 to POSSIBLY recover your data from a failed drive when you can pay $100 (price ranges depending on capacity) for once of these and not have to worry about that

I have been using these WD drives for a long time. This is actually the 28th I've purchased (I do a lot of editing of very large videos). They are always reliable and fast, and this one is no exception. They did make two changes recently that are minor annoyances to me. The first one is that they removed the light from the front. There are times when I'm running some long processing, and I liked being able to glance at the light, see it is blinking, and know that long background process is still going on. Can't do that any more, I now have to look at the computer screen and find the appropriate window to know. Because the disk is just a solid black box now with no indicators at all. The second one is that it is slightly noisier than before. Low thumping sounds that they didn't used to have. Not a big deal at all, but noticeable. Those are just minor annoyances, though. They're good drives.

Have had long positive history with this brand of external hard drives. This is no different and seems to be of the same quality as the others. Works great with Apple Macintosh computer too. Only downside is the software that came with it crashed while installing and was not a good experience overall. Recommend drive but would not install any of the software unless you need firmware update.

It's pretty easy to use but the software is somewhat confusing. I had been using a toaster-type external drive and I like that this is enclosed.

I purchased this external HD to backup photos. Easy to setup and is fast enough as a backup drive. I did not use the included backup software. It is third party and is overly complicated for my needs. I purchased an aftermarket solution online which simply backs up my pictures on demand.

This is great! Holds so much information! I think you’ll love it too

Great hard drive, lots of storage! This was the perfect edition to my new laptop to allow me to store GB’s of data from my music studio.

This Mybook with 8 Terabyte Sore is Awesome I am able to put so much information and fee space on my computers.

My previous 4TB MyBook lasted for years and died just after I spent funds replacing my 10+ year old home computer. In a pinch, I ran to the local Best Buy and purchased another MyBook (8TB) and then set up my CrashPlan/Code 42 account to restore my data. No problem--yahoo for offsite backup. The WD site and built-in software was new, unnecessary, and different. Regardless, all was set up, no data was lost, and I was fully functional again. That was in March 2023. This one died in November 2023. It made a funny noise for a few minutes one day, then poof. Nothing would work. I've now purchased a solid-state option from another manufacturer.

I was really on the fence since my old drive failed after a month but I’ve been using this one for like 3 months with no problems and its been the best value for the amount of storage it offers !! :)))

Easy to use and saved a lot of data from a dying hard drive.

Backup external drive adequate space and easy to load. Use this one as my drive for all information entered into my computer. This way my data us saved in two places.

The internal drive is sata. I pulled it out and put it in my server. The usb board can be used on any sata drive. It's a proper drive controller. Got it on sale and it works as a drive to store my raw video files and cad files. I got a few of these running in raid and they work nicely in my 1u rackmount server.

I'm happy with it and the size for baking up photos and videos. It's been really good so far.

This hard drive was exceptional during a 7 month deployment. I was able to store over 1,866 movies, a vast collection of television series, and multiple documents with plenty of room to spare. It was very easy to use, endured the wear and tear of daily handling, and did not malfunction at any point. It was my saving grace at sea! One of my Sailors ended up purchasing one as well after using mine.

I bought this because the then in use HD was on the verge of failing. I needed to transfer what was on a 3TB model before it was lost AND have sufficient room for future storage. I saw this model while in store and decided to buy it. I've used the products before and trust it. The storage size was right, the unit was on sale, and, as always, I knew that BestBuy stands by their sales. Operationally, it is plug and go. I haven't had any problems with it. If you need a massive amount of storage for a great price then consider buying this.

Great external storage device if you need a lot of extra files stored.