Customer Ratings & Reviews

Does the job well and great price and portability.

This is a great backup drive. Works great for that purpose but I would recommend their desktop drives for daily use due to fast higher performance. This drive is more for travel and media storage or backups rather than heavy writing.

A lot of storage space. Also its compact. Very easy to use. Keeps all your files safe and also you can create a password.

I totally LOVE the Western Digital External Hard Drives. I've been using them for years, and they just keep getting better as technology develops. Each time I purchase a new one, they're small with more storage capacity. Ya gotta love it :) And I love that Best Buy carries them. I use Best Buy for all my tech needs!

This has to be the best hard drive i've bought in a long time. It is way smaller than my old one and does not come with power supply brick which is awesome! I highly recommend this if you need extra storage. I use this for my xbox aswell.

Lots of storage while traveling and doesn't take up space in the laptop case.

WD drives are pretty straightforward. It's portable, it's lightweight, it's fast, and it's reliable.

This hard drive holds an exceptional amount of space and is easy to configure.

I am enjoying this small and reliable hard drive. No installation or other extra steps to use this external hard drive.

Product works as expected. Easy to install. Plug and play at its best.

Great small hard drive with plenty of space for everything I need . Price was excellent.

Works well with a ton of capacity. Just plug in and use.

Better for Laptop backup or mobile photo backup. Currently also offering 500 GB WD cloud storage subscription for 1 year. Also provides recovery software with 1 year license. You need to buy type B to type cable separately if want to use in Mac.

This is a very reliable drive. Works easily and efficiently.

Works great! Super easy to set up and has worked as advertised.

This has been a reliable drive, so far. Mostly use it to store movies. I generally keep it plugged into my LG tv.

Five stars for external design (can be slipped into the breast pocket of a jacket), connections (a short USB 3.0 cord is provided but no need for a separate power supply), and immediate use (if Windows, it's just plug and play). Minus two stars for failure to include promised "quick install guide" (only the user agreement is in the packaging), the failure of WD's support site to provide download for instructions, the incompatibility of this drive with Bitlocker (I wanted to use Windows Pro's security to be consistent with my other external drives, but it won't work with this drive), and glitches when installing the WD utilities (had to force the install when it claimed it couldn't find its own EXE files). That said, it's a very handy little device. I wound up using the WD encryption utility and then tried it on a different computer that didn't have the WD utilities. Plugging it in automatically triggered a request to launch the unlock utility and it worked just fine on the new PC. Recommended if you aren't planning on using Bitlocker for drive encryption. Nick in Palm Springs

Plenty of storage capacity, easy to use. No disc to go bad like my previous one.

Reliable, maximum storage, USB 3.0. Great value for backing up important files.

I store video files and back up my laptop. Easy to use and plenty of room. Small enough to carry with me to do presentations.