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External Hard Drive

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $7.0M a year here. But the average product has 42,477 reviews to catch up to, so External Hard Drive is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
56
56 / 100
Top 7% of 1,028 Computers & Accessories niches · +14 vs the category median of 42
Market size
£7.0M/yr4.1M searches / yr
90-day growth
-10.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
40%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 312 sellers

Flapen Score

External Hard Drive against its category

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

56Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The External Hard Drive market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for External Hard Drive 4.1M times last year and spent an estimated £7.0M. The top 5 brands take 80% of clicks. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 4.1M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -10.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £7.0M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
4.1M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-10.3%
Conversion, latest week
2.3%
Market size, estimated
£7.0Ma year
Peak month
December1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
external hard drive1.2M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £75.59.

Listings sell for £75.59 on average, from £18.74 to £279.04. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 80K to 100K a year. The average listing sells 2,000 to 2,500 of them. At £75.59 that is £151K to £189K a year per listing.

Average price
£75.59inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£18.74–£279.04
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
80K–100K
Units per listing a year
2,000–2,500
Revenue per listing a year
£151K–£189K
Returns
2.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

81% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 98% ship with Prime. On an average day, 8.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #12 within Data Storage. It carries 42,477 reviews at 4.33 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
81%
Prime listings
98%
Out of stock, average day
8.6%
Average rank
#12in Data Storage
Average rating
4.33 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
42,477per listing
Listings tracked
42

04 · Newcomers

7 of last year's 8 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

8 products launched here in the last 12 months. 7 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 54 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
8
Successful launches
7Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
54 months

Products

Top External Hard Drive products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 21, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 40% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£211K£421K£632K£842K101001K10K100K1.0M Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

13 flat

Sellers

312

Est. top-5 brand share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

40%

Top 20: 84%

Open market

14%

  • Seagate28%
  • UnionSine18%
  • Western Digital13%
  • ModusTech12%
  • Toshiba10%
  • ezekers6%
  • Open — no brand owns it (7 brands, 14%)

Demand

External Hard Drive search demand

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

150K100KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top External Hard Drive search terms shoppers use

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

  • external hard drive1.2M/yr
  • hard drive745K/yr
  • external hard drives258K/yr
  • 1tb external hard drive233K/yr
  • hdd193K/yr
  • 2tb external hard drive164K/yr
  • external hard drive 1tb195K/yr
  • portable hard drive141K/yr
  • 4tb external hard drive110K/yr
  • seagate external hard drive125K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about External Hard Drive

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

14%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
16%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
2.1%of orders come back
“Broke very quickly”
A buyer, on “Durability”16% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common External Hard Drive questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data