Bought for a HTPC/Plex server. Work as soon you plug it. After few days I look at the temperature and it was running a bit hot nothing major. Around same time a bad/weak sector was reported by Hard Disk Sentinel. But one bad/weak sector is nothing major as a problem still perform very well.

Large capacity and quiet nice looking external hard drive

Run a bit hot; After few days one bad/weak sector was found

I truly believe Western Digital drives are one of the best drives ever made! I have 4 Western Digital drives, for several years now. They last a really long time. I don't understand what "noise," some people were complaining about. My new 10TB drive is very quiet. I barely hear it!

Does what it's supposed to, but I ended up using my code for backups, the software it came with wasn't what I needed. I suspect it can be set up, but searching around there are lots of comments on their software,bbut why bother when I've got my own that works perfectly.

Excellent hard drive. Great read and write speeds. Recommend this one over the Seagate Back Up plus 8Tb external. I've bought both and can compare both. You won't go wrong buying this one over the competitor, the Seagate.

Western Digital has always made quality hard rives and storage devices, and this is yet another feather in their cap. It is ideal for any small business wanting a reliable and inexpensive option for storage.

I brought this and using as external storage for my Xbox One S, very easy to setup and not big hard drive at all. No fan keep it cool and turns off when I'm not using it. Plus with 4 tb have a ton space for all the video games I store on it.

So far so good, if it is as reliable as other WD drives we have in service, will be great

I just got 2 of these as well as 2 of the portable WD 4TB My Passport drives (B&H # WEMP4WDBYFB). WD's portable drives are 5 stars, because you can password protect them and when you connect your drive to a new computer, there's a small 30MB partition on the drive that acts as a virtual CD-ROM to...