i bought this 5 tb western digital external hard drive and it did not start up. after several attempts to reinstall and checking with western digital, i still got nowhere. it did not work. i am returning to sams club. hopefully your experience is better.

Like others have said, this drive is not very fast. The big problem with it is that it is heavy. I used this to back up VERY important data, and since I manage International business, sometimes I can be on the road for weeks at a time. Therefore, I live or die by my hard drive. This thing fell off a chair to the floor, maybe 18 inches and died. It is only a few months old! What a disappointment, and I lost months of work. I know IT people...3 back-ups on two different types of media. Easier said than done.

Great to have for extra space and easy to use.

Works fine, using it off an HDHOMERUN FLEX 4K to record TV. Quiet, and doesn't get hot.

great price, good product

It's working great so far! We got it to back our cloud storage to and its working beautifully.

Died after a week of being plugged in with light backup duty.

Works as it should. Needed to move pictures and video from wifes phone. Plenty of space

I purchased this to save recordings on my Tablo DVR device. It was easily formatted by the Tablo and has been working as expected.

Installed easily enough however the backup software seems to have created a recurring error regarding the "Bonjour dll". Still haven't figured that out. And there are a lot of attempts to purchase more services.