WD - Easystore 8TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black

Solid unit, actually has a WD RED drive inside, I did some research and found this to be true. I found this unit at a really low price of $129.99, I purchased it Black Friday, limited options but I got one, my reasons for buy? Xbox ONE X gaming console, you really do need a large drive if you plan on having any kind of a collection of games to play, and with the UHD 4K updates being so huge in size, this was a must have.

Would've given 5 stars but, if shucking, you may need to modify the power supply to the HDD. If you have a White label inside, which it appears most of these are, some power supplies may need to be modded for the drive to power on. The mod isn't too bad, just remove the orange lead from the plug that powers the drive, see pic below. The good is that it isn't too hard to shuck, white label is same specs as red, was a killer price on BF and mod isn't too difficult.

This unit has 8Tb of drive space!!!! It is more than all my other hard drivers all together... This one requires external power and is not the small portable version (I wish there is a small portable 8Tb HD!!!) but no problem for my current use: external drive for my Xbox One S. Working perfectly and no worries for keep installing new games (no need to remove old ones....) It seems fast and it is very silent.

I stopped using Seagate external HD’s because they were unreliable and would fail within a couple of years right after the warranty expired. I had a couple of WD external hard drives that I bought at the same time and they are still working. I’m a fan of WD now because I am comfortable with storing my valuable information on it without fear I will have to employ a data recovery service (which is quite expensive). Uploading and down loading is super fast with the 3.0 USB connection. I caught it on sale and the price was unbelievable. The only downside is that I bought it for a Apple device and had to format it before using it. Unfortunately I can’t verify the longevity because I’ve had it less than a month. I believe you will enjoy this device.

For those wondering, technically it is a re-badged WD red drive inside. Model WD80EMAZ-00WJTA0. I have heard some issues for those wanting to shuck and run as NAS. Crystalmark gives me a 5400 rpm and 256mb cache. Works great as a stand alone back up. If you want to run NAS you may want to look into the model number and see if it works with your system. Otherwise its a great all around back up. I haven't had any issue with heat, vibration or noise.

I bought this for my Xbox One X because the games are huge in 4k. It works great and very fast at loading. It helped that it was $129 on Black Friday.

he good. These hard drives work well when they do. Bang for buck, it's one of the better deals. These fail less than the Seagates. I consider this model at a higher standard than most other brands aside from Hitachi/HGST. Performance is good. Data speeds are fast as long as you're copying large files. The hardware itself rarely fails. I've only had one hard drive fail hardcore out of 10-12 of these backup drives in the last 8 years. So, I'd recommend this drive. Now for a short story: Ok, so I've bought about 6 of these over the last 4 years. Out of the 6, 4 worked and still work. I bought 4 from BB and 2 elsewhere. I was lucky because I had 2 fail rather quickly. The first one had errors in the copied files when I checked them right after the back up completed. The data on the second one, after 3TB of data was copied to it, disappeared and Windows asked to "repair the volume", which it did and recovered the data. Turning it off then on, it happened again and this time with permanent loss of data. Fortunately, it was only a backup and I just returned the drive to BB and they replaced it with a new one. BB was really good at exchanging both devices with no hassle. Great experience. I highly suggest to buy these hard drives from BB and not other online retailers to avoid handling. The new ones worked great.

I had been looking for a larger capacity external drive, and found several options at Best Buy during Black Friday. The 4TB drive was $99, but I found this one for $129 at twice the capacity. Hard to beat that deal! Also, the fact that I could purchase it online without having to deal with the Black Friday crowds was a definite bonus. The drive is doing what we need it to do. I haven't had it that long, but have had no issues with it.