Customer Ratings & Reviews

Easy to use hooks up easy and the price is affordable

Easy to use for backing up files. Like the small size of this unit.

Granted, SSD is now the way to go but I get paranoid of the “new way” and like to back up my important files onto these OldSchool external HD

It is very useful for my needs and is compatible with my computer. Has helped me organized all of my documents, photos and videos.

Great Lightweight and convenient portable hard drive.

I picked this up at the store, took it home, and plugged it into my Windows 10 laptop. I copied about 300 GB worth of data to store as a backup. Transfer rates on my system averaged a little over 100MB/s. Initially, speeds bounced between 88 to 104MB/s. By the end of the transfer, speeds were up to 119MB/s. I'm very happy! I didn't need to do anything more than plug it in and go. This was a replacement for an old backup hard drive. It's noticeably smaller (about half as thick) than the old USB 2.0 500GB drive it replaced. The whole process was easy. There was nothing I needed to do other than to plug it in and go.

Lots of storage and easy to use! I do have trouble connecting it to different computers though.

I bought this drive to store movies for my video library. It holds the movies and functions well with my computer. When I tried to attach the drive to my televisions and blu-ray/dvd players. Some it would work with others it wouldn't. I suspect the problem of not working with all the units is the drive is powered by whatever it's plugged into and some units couldn't do that. It works well though, as I said earlier, with my computer.

Love this little external drive. I use it as a backup drive and love the software it comes with to schedule when to run backups automatically and ability to choose exactly which folders you want to back up. Also I like that you can password protect it using the included software as well.

Hooked up beautifully to my ps4. It's so nice being able to have a few games to play instead of what you're able to with the stock storage.

Got plenty of room for all your media,(music, videos, movies). Nice and portable to view on the road.

Using it for 2 months. No problems. Have a lot of Western Digital external drives and find them highly reliable. I don't need to use the encryption function as I'm not using it for anything that needs to be secured. Nice and fast on USB 3.0. Using it with a laptop. No problems.

This was so helpful storing my pictures and other information. Easy as 1 2 3! Thank you. Worth every dime!!

Ethan M provided us with great customer service and professional support.

This item came in handy for me due to my desk top was acting up, so I bought it to back up all my fills

Works very well, but took some time to get it working with the password protected lock feature. Software included with the drive failed an update, and had to get the locking software from another WD external drive (probably could have found it online at WD site).

Just what I needed, and a fstaff member showed me how to use it.

Great External Hard Drive. Works with Macbook Air and my Lenovo laptop. Be sure if you plan to use this Hard Drive on both a Mac and a PC that you buy the Insignia USB-C to HDMI Multiport Adaptor. Thank you PJ at Beaumont, Texas Best Buy for your help. Great sales service.

Can fit an enormous amount of images , I have all my images from 2 years on this drive and still has storage for more !

Works perfect for PS5. I purchased to store all of my ps4 games on here to free up space on the internal ssd. Was very easy to format once plugged into the ps5 and non ps5 games automatically download and save to it. Would recommend to anyone looking for an external hard drive