I probably would not consider this a good buy unless available for well under two hundred

Bought for Wii U. To clear some confusion on the external drive storage subject with the Wii U

but I couldn't get the software working on one specific CAD computer that we use other than that a great Buy

You can still find these available new at places such as Best Buy and possibly Amazon

so you can access it from multiple computers/devicesOverall a great buy, just be clear on what it does and does not do

and I'm suspect as to the longevity

This seemed like such a great deal and all the other reviews cemented the belief that this would work.

Great deal on 8TB internal HDD if you're willing to tear up the enclosure.

For the price, this is a good deal on a powered USB external hard disk drive

For similar price it's possible to find better deal in retail stores like Costco.

but it might be that it is a faster HDD speed and that is where the noise and vibration comes from

This is not a fast read speed drive it is sufficient but after sitting idle it can take 30 secnor more to spin up and be ready for use

Reading speed around 150, noisy and hot(over 62°C).. but work fine

Reading speed around 150, noisy and hot(over 62°C).. but work fine

Buyer beware, that with a rotating drive of this size the speed is significantly slower than a smaller drive.

Both drives worked fine out of the box but the performance is lacking a bit

This hard drive has been working great as extra space for my PS4

The enclosed cord didn't work on my application, once I purchased a $2.50 cord the hard drive worked excellent.

The vibration is felt when working in the case, but after installing the disc in the computer, the vibration disappears-rather strange

My installer claims that he has a 3 TB WD external hard drive that works just fine with his Hopper system at his house.

I like the size and looks of this drive, it will work well with anything with a USB port, laptop or desktop, and comes with it's own ok backup software if you don't already have some.

Honestly I was expecting a huge hard drive but this size is perfect

While access to files is OK, trying to determine free space or size of a folder on the drive (right click > Properties) takes literally hours

So after doing some shopping, the WD 6TB was the best size for the money

If this is a frequent, common occurrence, the potential buyer should be told that the object may not do what s/he thinks it will do.

This is completely clunky, adds noise, takes extra space, and wrecks the looks

when I checked available space on the new drive it was much smaller then expected.

This hard drive has been working great as extra space for my PS4

I was tired of having to delete my old games to have free space

If this is a frequent, common occurrence, the potential buyer should be told that the object may not do what s/he thinks it will do.

Reading speed around 150, noisy and hot(over 62°C).. but work fine

The XBox came with a 1T hard drive, that after two years was filled to capacity (because the video games are HUGE)

I hope it last cause 8T is alot of pics and home vidoes to lose although it's not close to being filled up yet.

Shipping was fast (as expected), and the unit was packaged well.

It works as expected with transfer speed around 130 MB/s, which is great

" - that's must be a joke, quality is the opposite of this product, the plastic enclosure is poor plastic quality, it will get scratch if you just try to remove dust or fingerprint from it

The quality has been fine so far, but my Windows computer would not boot up with the drive plugged in until I reformatted to NTFS (that's the

Excellent Quality Drive, Runs under Linux ext4 superior to other main brand, have used over 20 of the Mybook 8tb & 4tb for a research project im associated with and would not trust any other brand

The XBox came with a 1T hard drive, that after two years was filled to capacity (because the video games are HUGE)

excellent quality, original packaging, fast shipping to NYC

Reading speed around 150, noisy and hot(over 62°C).. but work fine

The only place I was able to get the information was from WD tech support forums

Then I spent over three hours with their tech support while they did troubleshooting

Then I spent hours troubleshooting the drives before calling WD tech support

I hope it last cause 8T is alot of pics and home vidoes to lose although it's not close to being filled up yet.

The XBox came with a 1T hard drive, that after two years was filled to capacity (because the video games are HUGE)

Extra storage for my Xbox One X. Highly recommended external drive built by the best manufacturers.

I hope it last cause 8T is alot of pics and home vidoes to lose although it's not close to being filled up yet.

Works fine as a backup drive, didn't work for what we bought it for, additional storage for a DVR

All that storage looks good on paper but since the drives don't get any bigger, cramming that much storage makes it very vulnerable to power surges, blackouts etc

I go and it records my entire life!In that space and time, I started questioning what was the point of my entire life if it was this easy to lose so much data that I had spent so much time and effort capturing and preserving and supposedly backing up

My Passport that died after 38 months - much to my disappointment - a drive that I used to store movies - which are now lost due to PCB failure (not mechanical) just sitting on my desktop and having never been dropped or transported, Sadly, WD PCB repair/replacement to recover data is not as straight forward as other drives

I kept the drive in a well-ventilated area and made sure that nothing could damage it, given that there was sensitive data on the drive

so far honestly I have had 2 SSDs go bad and lose my data and one spinning drive in 35 years of bit banging

When your computer fails to identify the external drive, you're basically done and need a replacement or must send it out to have a company professionally recover your data from the failed external hard drive

, My only gripe with this thing is the hassle involved in plugging in the power cord in addition to the USB connector, as well as the risk of losing the cables (since they are removable) but I haven't as of yet had the cables come out on their own at all

After trying for an hour to get the drive to mount on a number of computers, I finally determined that it came with a bad USB cable.

It just doesn't power up and I have made sure its not a cable issue or a USB hub connectivity issue

Reading speed around 150, noisy and hot(over 62°C).. but work fine

I have this connected to a XPS 8930 which also supports USB c on the mother board

Two other Western Digital 4TB drives work fine, as well as three other 3TB drives.

If I can, I will make day-to-day TimeMachine backups with the 8TB WD MyBook drive and monthly backups to the reliable 3TB WD Passport drives.

The Western Digital 3TB external hard drive works well to do backups of my computer, and the price was good

This 4 TB Hard Drive was delivered to me on 3 July 2018.

The 4TB hard drive is probably the best, its small light and has pretty decent space with 3.63TB

If it also fails, I'll remove all stars from this review

But I took off 3 stars because the new case lacks an activity light, a omission I consider a fatal error.

I hope it last cause 8T is alot of pics and home vidoes to lose although it's not close to being filled up yet.

So... since everything's working I would give it 5 stars... but the concerning noises and so

Giving this 2 stars because (1) it should work out of the box and (2) I burned hours of my time doing checks of the hard drive (thinking there was something physically wrong with it) before realizing it was the USB.

chkdsk wont work and dirty bit sets you to read only on every file on drive.

Makes more noise than the seagate but loads a good bit faster

chkdsk not working on xfat with dirty bit set is a microsoft problem, not really these drives fault.

I had to format the external drive before using it, which is a bit odd since we never had to format any WD external drive until now

Overall a great drive, just a bit different than previous versions.

I hope it last cause 8T is alot of pics and home vidoes to lose although it's not close to being filled up yet.

The the HD inside the chassis must not be mount good or something because it exudes a heftier vibration wavelength than the other drives

It works as it should, reading reviews before you buy Just what I wantedis a good idea.

The vibration is felt when working in the case, but after installing the disc in the computer, the vibration disappears-rather strange

The XBox came with a 1T hard drive, that after two years was filled to capacity (because the video games are HUGE)

Then the computer will recognize the external hard drive.

The hard drive is not good, no longer works for no reason

Super fast drive, great priced storage on my most reliable Hard drives

and it would erase any content on the hard drive in doing so.

This external hard drive is an amazing hard drive I have

I tried several different methods to fix the bad sectors, but was unsuccessful.

I have this connected to a XPS 8930 which also supports USB c on the mother board

Probably just a bad sector, but wasting 2.5 hours setting up an external HD and ending up with nothing is sad.....merry christmas and to all a good night....

The XBox came with a 1T hard drive, that after two years was filled to capacity (because the video games are HUGE)

Bought it in February 2017, loaded a about two Terabytes of info on it and then started having issues with bad sectors.

so not counting that (just an FYI if you get this and have an older box) , the only thing I wish it had is a freaking light in

But I took off 3 stars because the new case lacks an activity light, a omission I consider a fatal error.

The XBox came with a 1T hard drive, that after two years was filled to capacity (because the video games are HUGE)

I do not like crazy flashing lights all over the place, but the only way to determine if the thing is powered up is to see it in your system or pick it up and feel it.

The drives lacks a LED light so there is no way of telling whether it is operating/active.

Update: after two weeks of periodic backups as a Time Machine drive on my wife's iMac, one of the drives started going south...an unusually loud and constant vibrating noise from the motor -- seems to keep getting louder

Not much noise I could notice and so far so good after 1 month.

Significant noise during operation.

I hear very low hard drive noise but no fan noise at all (I think cooling is passive).

While it's running it does make an occasional rattling noise but is otherwise generally quiet

I've had them less than 2 months and fear that they both are going to fail with all my data

The XBox came with a 1T hard drive, that after two years was filled to capacity (because the video games are HUGE)

Finally, there is an affordable 4T external hard drive

I hope it last cause 8T is alot of pics and home vidoes to lose although it's not close to being filled up yet.

After two months and numerous calls to technical support in India the drive crashed completely.

NOW, I have an inoperable HD (computer error '4T not accessible') with a bunch of personal stuff that I can't send back for security reasons

It says the drive is uninitialized and a fatal error has occured

It lasted from the beginning of November to the 13th of January before having a fatal hardware error.

But I took off 3 stars because the new case lacks an activity light, a omission I consider a fatal error.