WD - My Book 8TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black

I originally bought a 8 TB external that I believed would work with the PS4 Pro unfortunately that was not the case. So figured I would try this out, a employee recommended this unit that he has on his PS4 Pro and it worked like a charm. Went home hooked it up to the back USB port on PS4 Pro connected it to the External Hard Drive, let it sit for a sec then plugged in the power for the external hard drive (yes, this external hard drive needs power adapter to work) and boom. After about 1 minute or 2 the PS4 Pro recognized it, so I was already impressed, last one I tried didn’t even recognize it after about 10 minutes or so. After the message appeared in top left (external hard drive detected) (give or take message being a little off on wording I suppose). Then I went through proper setting via PlayStation website (super easy) and let the PS4 Pro format the drive to work. Now I can say I have a 8TB hard drive on it and room for all the games I need. Make sure your PlayStation is up to date, version 6.20 is what mine is on. Thanks WD, made my night. Game on friends!

Plugged it in and it worked. Just what I wanted for mass storage. I do NOT leave it on and connected, using it ONLY when I have files to transfer. Files that are headed there go first to a 4TB USB drive that sits next to the computer. Every week I tranfer those files to a larger storage drive. I do conventional and astrophotography, images and video, and generate a LOT of raw image data. Even though I pare it down it still ends up being a lot. I don't do RAID and offsite duplicates .... if I lose my raw data I'll miss it but Western Civilization won't collapse because of it. Finished work is in duplicate, the raw data is not. Attached is an unretouched photo of actual digital photo data. : )

- A lot of space for the price (at the time this was purchased). - The 3-year warranty is great. - It tends to run hotter than other drives, topping out around 55C during long file transfers. Having some type of fan push air through the vents on the top or bottom of the case can drop these temperatures a lot. - The drive model number in my enclosure is a WD80EDAZ-11TA3A0 according to CrystalDiskInfo and HWiNFO64. - The top half of the enclosure is a fingerprint magnet.

Had this drive delivered yesterday and it’s already giving me issues. I formatted the drive for my Mac, and after backing up a couple TBs of data overnight and most of today as of writing this review, I tried to eject the drive safely on my Mac and it would not un-mount. I didn’t want to force eject it so I let it sit for a while to see if it would stop whatever it was doing and eject normally, but it never did. I opted to restart my machine, but afterwards I realized this is probably the same thing as force ejecting it since macOS tried to safely eject when rebooting then just force it to un-mount. I moved the drive to another room/machine to back up data on that Mac, and that was the last time the drive worked as expected. The drive now constantly and randomly ejects/un-mounts, which as you can imagine makes it pretty unusable. I’ve attached a screen shot showing the drive mounted as “8TB” right below the macOS warning to eject drives safely, as it now just does this cycle nonstop. I’m not sure if it’s the HDD or the case that’s causing the issues, I will say I shucked the drive (so much for returning it lol) and while it still unmounts randomly it is nowhere near as bad as when it was in the case. It has a tiny logic board that provides power and USB-C confections that plugs into the SATA port, I’m hoping it’s this little thing that’s bad and not the drive itself. I’m fine using it like this until I can get a new case for it.

I needed an external storage for my files since I stream on Mixer constantly and my internal hd was getting full. So, I had this 8TB My Book delivered to my house. I've been using it since 5/26, and the last backup I have recorded was 6/18. Less than a month! I used all of the original cables and power supply, I didn't knock it over, and I tried all of the USB's on my gaming rig, so it's nothing I did. One day, the WD software and PC says it's unavailable, and disk configuration says it's RAW data instead of NTFS. My heart sinks... I'm so disappointed with WD. I have multiple old WD external HD's from them that haven't failed me, and this is the 2nd one I bought this year to have failed me. I originally bought a 5TB EasyStore from them as well earlier this year, and that failed too. Luckily, I didn't have anything important in that HD. Right now, I'm frantically trying to save old vids and data from the My Book external drive, and then I'll return it to the store for a refund. If I had run 'Error Checking' on both drives before using them, I would've known that both were going to die on me. Don't be me. Find a different product to store your data offline.

This product is great for what it is, plenty of space but still a Hard Disk drive, which means it's loud, slower than an SSD and it seems the more media I add to it the slower it is to search through the folders. Great for backing up, it may have a faster connection than my 2 external SSD's but I wouldn't recommend using it as a cache or media disk for video editing. I use Adobe Editing Software so I now use the 2 SSDs for active projects and use the WD My Book for backing up old projects and footage. The biggest benefit is a bang for your buck. If you're looking for more storage space and don't need crazy fast transfer speeds, this is a great product, otherwise, I recommend using SSD, if you have the money for it.

Based on the reviews I have read about it being "noisy" or "loud", I decided to give it a go anyway, because an external hard drive could not be any louder than what I have volume wise on the TV in the room. Let me tell you, it is a VERY light hum like noise. It isn't loud, it isn't obnoxious. The vibrate feel they may be talking about? My house is not shaking, and the items on my desk are not moving around.. so, I believe we have a lot of people who like to over exaggerate the slight hum and the slight vibrate. Overall, as a Mac user, it was easy to install and was pleased that the iMac was able to recognize that it needed to be reformatted, and did that for me automatically. I would highly recommend this product, especially if you were like me, and had to buy a new iMac because your old MacBook Pro has decided to go into retirement, and realize that 500GB isn't a lot of room for someone who uses it for graphic design purposes.. which as you would know, takes up A LOT of space over time.

I needed a backup solution that would allow me to keep multiple boot drive images in case of failure. Since my boot drive is nearly 1 GB I needed a large backup drive. Western Digital offered me three pluses to decide to buy it.First a copy of Acronis Backup Western Digital Version comes with the product for free. I have used Acronis on other computers and it was my preferred backup solution, so it was perfect for me to get this product to use on my new computer. Second is the three year warranty. Third is that it comes externally powered so I do not have to worry about overloading USB connection and poor reliability with large backups. I just wish that all external hard drive manufactures have migrated to offering USB3.2 or USB C connectors to allow fast 10 GPS speeds for these huge backups. The new standard has been around a long time, and there is no excuse for them not to provide the standard.