Customer Ratings & Reviews

this is the best external hard drive. its got the maximum space at a reasonable price. WD is the best!!! I heard seagate is no good.

I use this for my XBOX as external storage, it was super easy to use - first with transfering data from my other, smaller external device (which was then added to my PS4), then to the console proper. It's quiet, works beautifully, and has never given me any grief even a year later! Would recommend.

Got this on sale, decent size for the price I paid. Make sure to format it to NTFS if using on Windows 10 before you start putting stuff on it, or else you can't boot up the computer with it plugged in (comes as exFAT by default). Honestly, I bought it partly so I could move stuff from a different external hard drive, and format *that* one to NTFS so I wouldn't have to keep unplugging it before rebooting or starting up the computer.

Easy set up... plenty of storage for backing up a full computer disk drive

Easy to use and is recognized automatically. If using on a PC just plug and play. If using on a Mac, still plug and play. You have the option to download the software that is preloaded on drive if you want to truly utilize it to the fullest extent. I use it for all my music and movies and it has no issues when I am watching them over the network through Apple TV. Would highly recommend it!

Perfect storage space for my video, photo and gaming projects. Recommend

Since I've had this it has worked flawlessly and I'm very satisfied.

THE TECH FOLKS AT USC SAID YOU SHOULD BACK UP YOUR HARD DRIVES BECAUSE THEY REALLY ONLY WORK WELL FOR ABOUT 5 YEARS. I WANTED A DRIVE I COULD BACK UP TO HAT COULD HOLD DATA FROM A COUPLE OF SMALLER DRIVES. THIS WAS DEFINITELY IT! Excellent for a time machine drive too.

I've had several of these over the years, purchasing new ones as I need more and more space for pictures, videos and computer backups. Old, smaller drives still working great so I've had good reliability with them. Only issue is attaching them to a router so you can use them throughout your wifi home network can sometimes be a little tricky. Make the format is correct if you do that. Otherwise, great.

All the memory I need for a lot of files and picutres

Great external hard drive with lots of storage and from a great brand

Replaced my older model ,this one has so much more memory!

Great harddrive, lots of storage for my files, also plenty for gaming

I owned a lot of Western Digital Hard drives and have always have had good luck with them. I've had the 8 TB My Book for a couple of months now and it's working just as I expected it to.

Just right size I needed and working great so far.

Excellent, fast, reliable as have been all my WD hard drives.

Quick service and selection. Works perfectly for all my backup needs.

This is my third WD external drive. No problems with the previous ones, just needed more storage capacity. I plugged this in to the computer, and began backing up not just the computer, but the other WD drive as well. The problem I do have with it, is it's loud and makes the desk vibrate, there is no light on it indicating it's actually doing anything, however from the noise it's easy to tell if it's working.

Overall this is a great buy. 8tb is a ton of space and $200 is very reasonable. I have had zero issues with Read or write speeds and although you can hear it working, it is not bothersome. My only complaint would be that it does go to sleep if unused. This hasn't been an issue other than it may take 30 seconds to get into a file if you haven't used the drive in a while. But it's not too bad and it doesn't disconnect or anything like that.

it is a very good hard drive. I am glad I bought it