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Wd Elements External Hard Drive

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Wd Elements External Hard Drive is a Fail.

Flapen Score
39
39 / 100
Ranks 5,506 of 8,347 Electronics niches · −4 vs the category median of 43
Market size
$201K/yr580K searches / yr
90-day growth
+112.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
57%top-5 click share · 4 brands · 250 sellers

Flapen Score

Wd Elements External Hard Drive against its category

The dotted line is the Electronics average. Past it, Wd Elements External Hard Drive is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

39Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Wd Elements External Hard Drive market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Wd Elements External Hard Drive 580K times last year and spent an estimated $201K. All 4 brands take every click. Flapen scores it 39 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 580K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +112.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $201K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
580K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+112.0%
Conversion, latest week
0.2%
Market size, estimated
$201Ka year
Top search term
western digital211K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $182.55.

Listings sell for $182.55 on average, from $67.10 to $471.63. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 8K to 10K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $182.55 that is $18K to $46K a year per listing.

Average price
$182.55above the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$67.10–$471.63
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
8K–10K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$18K–$46K
Returns
2.9%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

73% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 92% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #41 within Data Storage. It carries 80,044 reviews at 4.52 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
73%
Prime listings
92%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#41in Data Storage
Average rating
4.52 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
80,044per listing
Listings tracked
26

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 62 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
62 months

Products

Top Wd Elements External Hard Drive products & what they sell for

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

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 57% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

4 falling

Sellers

250

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

57%

Top 20: 93%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 170%
  • Brand 219%
  • Brand 39%
  • Brand 42%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Wd Elements External Hard Drive search demand

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

80K60KSpike '26JanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 13.9× · 7 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Wd Elements External Hard Drive search terms shoppers use

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

  • western digital211K/yr
  • wd elements external hard drive35K/yr
  • western digital hard drive48K/yr
  • wd hard drive36K/yr
  • wd elements30K/yr
  • wd hdd28K/yr
  • 4tb external drive17K/yr
  • wd my passport 2tb8K/yr
  • wd 2tb external hard drive12K/yr
  • western digital hdd14K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Wd Elements External Hard Drive

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

13%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
21%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
2.9%of orders come back
“Doesnt last”
A buyer, on “Durability”21% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Wd Elements External Hard Drive questions

Answered from the same tracked data.