
This drive is still in the box...Purchased for future use,but I have confidence in Seagate drives...Flawless operation of two others thus far...Powered up 24/7/365...Will purchase again...Rapid delivery as the norm...

over 130MB/s


WOW A LOT OF SPACE FOR STORAGE

The product is as described.




Product is basically a lot of storage for a great price. Packaged well and no issues.


- Fast transfer speeds for and HDD (~215 MB/s) - Ample space for ample libraries (Can store as much as 2,564 DVD DL or 872 single layer BD-R) - Easy Setup (Literally plug and play)

8TB of space for 169$ I know the drive in it is probably a WD Green/Blue I had to pop open a WD 8TB once because it wouldn't find the drive via usb, so i took it out and put it in and it was a WD Green, (I once popped open those Samsung Station D3's and it had Seagate Desktop Drive in it.) All in all, it great for offloading movies, it's small enough that you can take it with you if you travel like I do. Plug it into the USB slot on a TV and play away. Formats out to 8550GB

WD is my go to for HDDs. i use this for backups and images and whatnot. tons of space to store even full images. i dont read from it very often and dont care about the write speed, so i cant comment if its fast, but im sure its on par with any other HDD. USB 3.0 which is great as well. case is nice and subtle, clean looking.

Plug and play on Windows 7 SP1 without problems. Do scan all surface to check for any bad sectors took about 12 hours and nothing find. It come in format is ExFAT. It can format to NTFS if I want to. I'm so happy for this new hard drive for backup. I heard this can work fine with PlayStation 4, Xbox One and future new gaming system to support this bigger hard drive for store huge games library collection. In near future, when Microsoft stop support Windows 7 then I will switch to two different operating system are ReactOS and Linux. Hope both OS work with this hard drive. WD company must support other OS like Linux and other OS in near future.

Two friends of mine needed external drives so I got them this one. Great deal.

I bought this product to hold my collosal library of Steam Games. Easy to setup, easy to use - I haven't noticed any latency at all when trying to load games. The best part is, if I want to use my steam games on another PC, I can just bring the drive with me!


1.Cost, the cost of storage has been going down over the last decade (even with the current chip shortage), 2. Western Digital is the current leader in this field 3. Ease of setup, Plug and play and forget


Big drive for a reasonable price, plug and play with my PS4.