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20tb Hard Drive

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so 20tb Hard Drive is a Fail.

Flapen Score
35
35 / 100
Ranks 808 of 1,028 Computers & Accessories niches · −7 vs the category median of 42
Market size
£345K/yr182K searches / yr
90-day growth
-17.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
54%top-5 click share · 3 brands · 336 sellers

Flapen Score

20tb Hard Drive against its category

The dotted line is the Computers & Accessories average. Past it, 20tb Hard Drive is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

35Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The 20tb Hard Drive market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for 20tb Hard Drive 182K times last year and spent an estimated £345K. All 3 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Mar. Flapen scores it 35 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

0.8% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 182K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 0.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -17.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £345K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
182K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-17.4%
Conversion, latest week
0.8%
Market size, estimated
£345Ka year
Peak month
March2.1× the quietest month
Top search term
20tb hard drive28K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £252.74.

Listings sell for £252.74 on average, from £31.45 to £473.33. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 2K to 3K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At £252.74 that is £0 to £25K a year per listing.

Average price
£252.74above the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£31.45–£473.33
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
2K–3K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
£0–£25K
Returns
2.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

67% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.7% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #38 within Components & Replacement Parts. It carries 27,227 reviews at 4.38 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
67%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
0.7%
Average rank
#38in Components & Replacement Parts
Average rating
4.38 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
27,227per listing
Listings tracked
30

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 3 of last year's 3 launches as successful.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 3 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 58 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
58 months

Products

Top 20tb Hard Drive products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 54% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£14K£28K£41K£55K101001K10K100K1.0M Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

3 falling

Sellers

336

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

54%

Top 20: 92%

Open market

0%

  • Western Digital65%
  • Seagate34%
  • WD1%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

20tb Hard Drive search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

8K6KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Mar · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.1×

Search terms

Top 20tb Hard Drive search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • 20tb hard drive28K/yr
  • wd elements external hard drive16K/yr
  • western digital16K/yr
  • wd elements15K/yr
  • 18tb hard drive13K/yr
  • 20tb external hard drive12K/yr
  • 20tb11K/yr
  • 22tb hard drive9K/yr
  • 20tb hdd8K/yr
  • 22tb5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about 20tb Hard Drive

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Durability17%−0.14

Failed after 4 months

Failure after 2 weeks

Got 2 of the 3 disks failing within months

Noise Level12%+0.35

Ridiculously loud

Extremely loud

A bit noisy

Functionality-Overall11%−0.08

then freezing my pc

Didn't work, returned

After a few weeks this would not work properly

Value For Money9%−0.03

Ridiculous price

Expensive

Its not cheap

Storage Capacity6%+0.46

I know that you don't get the full storage because of os and suff

the data cannot be mounted or read

Not the advertised capacity

Love

Storage Capacity13%+0.46

loads of storage space

Great capacity

Good storage

Quality-Overall10%+0.47

Good quality drive, fast speeds

Quality product

no complaints at all

Value For Money10%−0.03

Good Value

Great value

worth it

Data Transfer Speed9%+0.33

It's fairly fast

easy to setup, decent transfer and access rates

Good quality drive, fast speeds

Portability7%+0.59

reliable and portable just as it says also not really noticed any noise from it either

Lightweight and portable

Portable Hard Drive

Return

2.4% Return rate 0% Fixable by listing

Functionality-Overall20%▅▆▆█▅▆

then freezing my pc

Didn't work, returned

After a few weeks this would not work properly

Compatibility-Overall17%▅▆█▃██
Connectivity-Overall11%██▄▅▆▄

Disconnects when in use

However, wasn't to clear on how it connects to a PC or Laptop computer

within a couple of days the drive began randomly disconnecting before eventually becoming unusable

Noise Level9%█▄▇▆▆▄

Ridiculously loud

Extremely loud

A bit noisy

Defective Material/Parts8%▅▅▃▇█▆

FAQ

Common 20tb Hard Drive questions

Answered from the same tracked data.