Today's Biggest Seagate External Hard Drive Price DropsApril 2021

In total we found 139 external harddisk ranging from $45 to $850. A new external hard drive costs on average $194 and 80% of external harddisk are priced between $78 and $413. The G-Technology G-DRIVE Thunderbolt 3 - 8Tb is the most expensive external hard drive that we found at $850, and the Seagate Expansion Portable - 1Tb is the cheapest at only $46.

We have checked 118 expert reviews and 1,883 user reviews for external hard disk and used this information to calculate the average rating for each brand of external hard drive. The top rated external hard drive brand is Western Digital with an average rating of 89%. The second best brand is Seagate with 85% and the third best brand is Silicon Power with 77%.

Read more in our article what are the best External Hard Drive brands?

We found 83 current offers for external hard drives from Adorama making it the biggest external hard drive retailer. That is significantly bigger than the second biggest retailer, Overstock for whom we found 60 current offers for external hard drives. The third biggest retailer is Pictureline with 2 current external hard drive offers.

The chart below helps you decide which retailer is normally cheapest for buying external hard disks. For each retailer it shows the total number of external hard disks where they currently have a market leading price. The chart below helps you decide which retailer is normally cheapest for buying external hard drives. For each retailer we took all of their prices and looked at what proportion of those prices where the cheapest on the market. The cheapest retailer that we found was Overstock. 53 of their external hard drive prices were the cheapest that could be found anywhere.

Assessing how cheap each retailer is for external hard drives by counting the number of cheapest prices for that retailer, makes the retailers that offer the greatest number of external hard drive prices more likely to offer the greatest number of cheapest prices. The chart below considers the proportion of each retailer's external hard drive prices that are the cheapest compared to other retailers. The cheapest retailer that we found using this approach was Overstock. 88.3% of their external hard drive prices were the cheapest that could be found anywhere.

New external hard disk drives drop in price by an average of 0% in the first 6 months after they were first released.

That means a saving of $0 on a typical $193 new external hard drive if you wait 6 months before buying.

Read more in our article How quickly do External Hard Drives drop in price?

We couldn't see any prominent trend in the release dates for new external hard drive over the last 3 years. Last year most new external hard drive were released in February, with five new external hard drive released that month. The biggest month in 2019 for new external hard drive releases was September, with 10 new external hard drives released that month. 57 new external hard disk drive were released in June 2018 making it the biggest month that year for new external hard drive releases.

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