I keep 2 of these drives running off my laptop at all times. I have one backup from the laptop. The other WD10TB backups from the 1st backup. They operate as mirror images. This redundancy is affordable with this 10TB. I also store on the drive all my software copies, videos that I archive off my laptop, other historic relics from older retired computers, etc. You can find lots of uses with this much space. They instantly start up each time on my Windows 10. This can be an issue with other drives. Other manufacturer's drives eventually disappear and never can be recognized again for some reason. WD has never had that problem on these, or prior WD drives I have owned.

I was really worried about this purchase. Every external HD I have purchased, crapped out on me in a short period of time. I have had them lock me out to where the manufacturer sent me a replacement, and I sent the old one in. They had tier 3 techs trying to get into the system, and it had everyone locked out for good. No reason. So far no trouble, but it is early on. I will update first sign of problems.

As a photographer, I'm always in need of large amounts of storage space for high resolution images. When this 10 TB drive was offered on sale for only $159.95 I simply couldn't resist. I have two other Western Digital external drives and they have served me well too. So I was not surprised that the plug and play installation worked flawlessly and backup software installed without a hitch too.

Needed a large external drive for software backups. Bought this on sale for $179. I have 2 others (1.5 and 4 TB), and this works as the other. I like that they last (I had one over 4 years) and are reliable. Transfer 60 GB software backup daily. Internal hard drive backup was at about 200 MB/second using USB 3.1. Drive is quiet as well. I would (and probably will) buy more of these.

Great drive, but I noticed mine has a very loud fan. This contains a white label RED drive. I bought a second 1tb and that one had no noise vibration from the fan. The drive itself is fine, it is the fan enclosure making the low level hum. Imagine like the noise a ceiling fan makes while on it's lowest spin setting. That is similar to the noise one of mine makes. Probably just some plastic fan that expanded a little too much.

I'm not particularly picky about how I store my pictures, but I could not pass up this much storage for such a low price. I've used WD products before, but never this much storage. I formatted it for my 2015 Macbook Pro and have had no issues so far. Highly recommend it! They usually go on sale from time to time, so keep an eye out.

Bought this drive to replace two, smaller, aging HDDs. Works flawlessly with my new Mac computer. This thing has such massive storage capacity, so partitioned into three separate drives - one for Time-machine backups, one for Photos and one for music! Now have only one drive on my desk instead of two! Highly recommend this product.

I've had the best luck with this 10TB hard drive. I tried the G-Technologies drive, but it doesn't work well on Windows. This drive connected with Windows 10, without any issues. It seems to be much faster the the G-Technologies drive. I've been storing a lot of 360 VR media on it, and they playback without any performance issues