Storage brands, ranked by cost per terabyte

Storage brands fall into rough camps, and knowing which is which saves money. Seagate and Western Digital dominate mechanical hard drives and, with the enterprise heritage of HGST, deliver the lowest cost per terabyte on the whole site — especially through recertified enterprise drives. Samsung, Crucial and Kingston lead on solid-state storage, trading hard-drive value for the speed and silence of flash. SanDisk owns the camera-and-mobile memory card world, while Micron sells the enterprise silicon behind Crucial.

Each card below shows the live number of products we currently track for that brand and the cheapest cost per terabyte on offer right now — both computed from today's catalog. Click through for the full, filterable lineup, or jump straight to the $/TB rankings to compare every brand at once. New to storage shopping? Start with our HDD vs SSD guide.