Sixty-seven storage listings read on one morning and divided by the number printed on the box. The cheapest gigabyte costs Rs. 4.05, the dearest Rs. 187.38, and the two listings that make the point sell for exactly the same Rs. 1,499.
Storage is the one shelf where the headline specification is a plain number, so we read sixty-seven listings on amazon.in on 14 September 2026 and divided every price by the capacity printed on it. The rate runs from Rs. 4.05 to Rs. 187.38 per gigabyte, and the thing that moves it is format, not brand — hard drives sit at a median of Rs. 5.21 a gigabyte, memory cards at Rs. 29.56. The neatest proof of that is a coincidence of price: a 128GB pen drive and an 8GB memory card both sell here for Rs. 1,499, against the same Rs. 2,499 list price.
Every price below was pulled from Amazon on September 14, 2026 and checked against the MRP on the listing. Stack them with the live codes on our Amazon coupons page, which the deals desk re-verifies daily.
Four external hard drives, including the Rs. 4.05-per-GB floor of the whole read and the 4,642-rating drive that costs 83 percent more.
Rs. 4,152 for a stated 1TB — Rs. 4.05 per GB, the floor of the read.
Why it earned its spot The lowest rate anywhere here, from a listing with no brand and no rating.
Rs. 4,950 for 1TB at 4.2 stars — Rs. 4.83 per GB.
Why it earned its spot Eight hundred rupees more than the floor, with 258 ratings instead of none.
Rs. 3,009 for 500GB — the lowest ticket price of any drive here.
Why it earned its spot The cheapest way onto this page, at a 48% worse rate than the 1TB above it.
Rs. 7,599 for 1TB with 4,642 ratings — Rs. 7.42 per GB.
Why it earned its spot By far the largest sample in the hard-drive chapter, at the worst rate in it.
Solid state starts at 2.4 times the hard-drive rate, and the fastest claim here is 7,200 MB/s on a 65-rating sample.
Rs. 6,399 for 512GB of SATA SSD — Rs. 12.50 per GB.
Why it earned its spot The entry point to solid state, at 2.4x the hard-drive median rate.
Rs. 14,499 for a 1TB M.2 NVMe drive — Rs. 14.16 per GB.
Why it earned its spot The lowest price on this page for the format most new laptops take.
Rs. 17,999 for 1TB claiming 7,200 MB/s — Rs. 17.58 per GB.
Why it earned its spot The highest stated read speed here, at a mid-table rate.
Rs. 19,900 for 1TB Gen4 — and a Rs. 35,000 MRP above it.
Why it earned its spot The deepest badge in the SSD chapter, on its dearest internal drive.
Four carry-around drives, including the most-rated drive in the read at 81,966 ratings and the Rs. 30,500 ticket that undercuts it on rate.
Rs. 12,999 for a 1TB portable SSD — Rs. 12.69 per GB.
Why it earned its spot The cheapest way to get a terabyte of solid state you can carry.
Rs. 30,500 for 2TB — and the second-best rate in its chapter.
Why it earned its spot The biggest ticket here, and a demonstration that scale cuts the rate.
Rs. 19,999 for 1TB with 81,966 ratings behind it.
Why it earned its spot Eighty-two thousand ratings is the best evidence on any drive here.
Rs. 24,300 for 1TB claiming twice the transfer speed — Rs. 23.73 per GB.
Why it earned its spot Rs. 4,301 more than the Extreme for a doubled speed claim.
Six sticks spanning a 6x rate range, including the most-rated listing on the page at 85,145 ratings and the Rs. 475 drive that costs Rs. 59.38 a gigabyte.
Rs. 1,243 for 128GB — with 85,145 ratings and a Rs. 5,999 MRP.
Why it earned its spot The largest sample on the page, and its most inflated list price.
Rs. 1,499 for 128GB on USB 3.2 — 65,806 ratings.
Why it earned its spot The same Rs. 1,499 that buys an 8GB memory card at the end of this page.
Rs. 1,600 for 128GB at 4.3 stars from 75,260 ratings.
Why it earned its spot The best average in the chapter on its second-largest sample.
Rs. 1,888 for a 128GB drive with Type-C and USB-A ends.
Why it earned its spot Plugs into a phone and a laptop without an adapter.
Rs. 2,549 for 128GB — and a Rs. 7,499 MRP printed above it.
Why it earned its spot Twice the price of the cheapest 128GB drive, on 80 ratings.
Rs. 475 for 8GB — and Rs. 59.38 per GB for the privilege.
Why it earned its spot The smallest sum here, at six times the pen-drive median rate.
Six cards, three of them displaying the identical 644-rating sample, ending on the 8GB card that costs the same Rs. 1,499 as a 128GB pen drive.
Rs. 849 for a stated 128GB microSD — on two ratings.
Why it earned its spot Rs. 6.63 per GB, by far the best card rate here — and almost no evidence.
Rs. 2,499 for 128GB microSDXC — 62,147 ratings at 4.3 stars.
Why it earned its spot Sixty-two thousand ratings, the largest sample in the card chapter.
Rs. 1,466 for 64GB — displaying the same 644 ratings as three other capacities.
Why it earned its spot The top of a four-listing ladder that shares one review pool.
Rs. 1,200 for 32GB — Rs. 37.50 per GB, and the same 644 ratings.
Why it earned its spot Half the capacity of the card above for 82% of the price.
Rs. 387 for 8GB — Rs. 48.38 per GB, still the same 644 ratings.
Why it earned its spot The cheapest card here, at twelve times the rate of the cheapest drive.
Rs. 1,499 for 8GB — Rs. 187.38 per GB, and the same price as a 128GB pen drive.
Why it earned its spot The single worst rate on the page, at a price that buys sixteen times more elsewhere on it.
First: divide the price by the capacity before anything else. On this read that single sum separates a Rs. 4.05 gigabyte from a Rs. 187.38 one, and it is the only calculation on the page that needs no specialist knowledge. Second: pick the format before the brand. A memory card costs about 5.7 times what a hard drive costs per gigabyte here, and no amount of brand shopping closes that gap. Third: never buy the small rung of a family. The halving penalty is universal on this shelf — a 32GB HIKVISION card costs 64 percent more per gigabyte than the same range's 64GB, and a 500GB hard drive 49 percent more than the 1TB beside it. Fourth: check the rating count against neighbouring capacities. Four cards in one range here display the identical 644-rating sample, so the stars on each describe the group. Our keyboard, mouse and router read prices the rest of this aisle the same way.
| Product | Sale price | MRP | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1TB external hard drive, Rs. 4,152 | Rs. 4,152 | Rs. 44% | Rs. 4.05/GB% |
| MAYUMI 1TB hard disk, Rs. 4 | Rs. 4,950 | Rs. 48% | Rs. 4.83/GB% |
| GEONIX 500GB hard drive, Rs. 3 | Rs. 3,009 | Rs. 35% | Rs. 6.02/GB% |
| UnionSine 1TB hard disk, Rs. 7,599, 4 | Rs. 7,599 | Rs. 31% | Rs. 7.42/GB% |
| EVM 512GB SATA SSD, Rs. 6 | Rs. 6,399 | Rs. 29% | Rs. 12.5/GB% |
| EVM 1TB NVMe SSD, Rs. 14 | Rs. 14,499 | Rs. 24% | Rs. 14.16/GB% |
| KIOXIA 1TB Gen4 NVMe, Rs. 17 | Rs. 17,999 | Rs. 28% | Rs. 17.58/GB% |
| Crucial P310 1TB, Rs. 19 | Rs. 19,900 | Rs. 43% | Rs. 19.43/GB% |
| HIKVISION 1TB portable SSD, Rs. 12 | Rs. 12,999 | Rs. 5% | Rs. 12.69/GB% |
| SanDisk 2TB portable SSD, Rs. 30 | Rs. 30,500 | Rs. 31% | Rs. 14.89/GB% |
| SanDisk Extreme 1TB, Rs. 19,999, 81 | Rs. 19,999 | Rs. 8% | Rs. 19.53/GB% |
| SanDisk Extreme Pro 1TB, Rs. 24 | Rs. 24,300 | Rs. 10% | Rs. 23.73/GB% |
| HP v236w 128GB pen drive, Rs. 1 | Rs. 1,243 | Rs. 79% | Rs. 9.71/GB% |
| Kingston Exodia DTX 128GB, Rs. 1 | Rs. 1,499 | Rs. 25% | Rs. 11.71/GB% |
| SanDisk Ultra 128GB pen drive, Rs. 1 | Rs. 1,600 | Rs. 27% | Rs. 12.5/GB% |
| HIKVISION E307C 128GB OTG, Rs. 1 | Rs. 1,888 | Rs. 37% | Rs. 14.75/GB% |
| Lexar D400 128GB, Rs. 2 | Rs. 2,549 | Rs. 66% | Rs. 19.91/GB% |
| Geonix 8GB pen drive | Rs. 475 | Rs. 41% | Rs. 59.38/GB% |
| 128GB microSD, Rs. 849 | Rs. 849 | Rs. 66% | Rs. 6.63/GB% |
| SanDisk Ultra 128GB microSD, Rs. 2 | Rs. 2,499 | Rs. 64% | Rs. 19.52/GB% |
| HIKVISION 64GB microSD, Rs. 1 | Rs. 1,466 | Rs. 44% | Rs. 22.91/GB% |
| HIKVISION 32GB microSD, Rs. 1 | Rs. 1,200 | Rs. 40% | Rs. 37.5/GB% |
| HIKVISION 8GB microSD | Rs. 387 | Rs. 35% | Rs. 48.38/GB% |
| SanDisk 8GB SDHC, Rs. 1,499 | Rs. 1,499 | Rs. 40% | Rs. 187.38/GB% |
Storage is the rare shelf where the headline specification is a plain number, so this whole page is priced per gigabyte. Sixty-three of the sixty-seven listings we read state a capacity, and across them the rate runs from Rs. 4.05 to Rs. 187.38 per GB — a 46x spread, against a median of Rs. 19.43. The arithmetic is ours, on Amazon's displayed price and the seller's own stated capacity. Formatted capacity is always somewhat less than the number on the box, for every product here equally, so the comparison between them holds even though the absolute figure is generous.
Because format is what actually sets the price. Median per gigabyte: spinning external hard drives Rs. 5.21 across 9 listings, pen drives Rs. 14.75 across 11, SSDs Rs. 17.08 across 18 and memory cards Rs. 29.56 across 22. A memory card costs roughly 5.7 times what a hard drive costs for the same gigabyte on this same shelf. Brand barely moves it — SanDisk holds both the cheapest-per-GB portable SSD chapter entry and the dearest listing on the entire page.
And found the clearest illustration of the above. A Kingston DataTraveler Exodia S 128GB pen drive and a SanDisk 8GB Class 4 SDHC card both sell at Rs. 1,499, both against a Rs. 2,499 MRP. Same money, same printed list price, sixteen times the capacity on one of them. The card is the oldest and slowest format in this read — Class 4 — and it is the dearest thing here per gigabyte at Rs. 187.38, which is 9.6 times the rate of a 1TB SanDisk Extreme portable SSD sold on the same page.
Four HIKVISION Extreme microSDXC listings — 8GB at Rs. 387, 16GB at Rs. 667, 32GB at Rs. 1,200 and 64GB at Rs. 1,466 — all display 4.1 stars from exactly 644 ratings. Identical to the digit across four capacities means one review pool behind four differently-priced products, so none of those averages describes the card in its own photograph. Three of the four are seated below and each says so on its card; the 16GB is named here instead.
This page prices listings. It does not measure read or write speed, verify a V30 or UHS-II class claim, check endurance, count write cycles or say anything about how long any of these will hold data. Those are the claims that matter most on storage and exactly the ones a search-results page cannot settle. Where a listing's stars come from a shared pool we say so on the card; where the sample is thin we print the number in words rather than as a star pill.
On this read, between Rs. 4,152 and Rs. 7,599 — that is Rs. 4.05 to Rs. 7.42 per gigabyte, and the nine hard drives here have a median rate of Rs. 5.21. The cheapest 1TB carried no brand name and no published rating at all; the dearest carried 4,642 ratings at 4.2 stars. Inside this format the extra money buys evidence rather than capacity, which is the opposite of how the SSD chapter works. A 500GB drive at Rs. 3,009 is the cheapest ticket price here but costs 49 percent more per gigabyte than the 1TB above it.
Because the reviews are pooled across listings Amazon treats as variations of one another, and no listing page says so. In this read the HIKVISION Extreme 8GB at Rs. 387, 16GB at Rs. 667, 32GB at Rs. 1,200 and 64GB at Rs. 1,466 all displayed 4.1 stars from exactly 644 ratings. Four capacities, four prices, one sample. When neighbouring listings show an identical count to the digit, the stars describe the family and not the specific card, so check the sibling capacities before treating a rating as evidence for the one in front of you.
That is a speed question this page cannot answer, but it can price it exactly. On this read the cheapest solid-state gigabyte costs Rs. 12.50 against a hard-drive median of Rs. 5.21 — roughly 2.4 times as much — and the cheapest portable SSD costs about 2.4 times what a portable hard drive costs for the same carried terabyte. Above 1TB the multiple narrows: the Rs. 30,500 2TB portable SSD here works out cheaper per gigabyte than four of the 1TB portable SSDs on the same shelf.
An HP v236w 128GB pen drive at Rs. 1,243 with 85,145 ratings at 4.2 stars — the largest sample in this read, and also the listing with the most inflated list price on the page at Rs. 5,999, a 4.8x multiple. After it come a SanDisk Extreme 1TB portable SSD with 81,966 ratings, a SanDisk Ultra 128GB pen drive with 75,260 and a Kingston 128GB pen drive with 65,806. The best-evidenced memory card is a SanDisk Ultra 128GB microSDXC with 62,147.
Because the price of a storage product is not mostly the storage. Packaging, controller, testing, distribution and shelf presence cost roughly the same whether a card holds 8GB or 128GB, so the fixed part dominates at the bottom of the range. On this read that shows up as an 8GB SD card at Rs. 1,499, or Rs. 187.38 per gigabyte — the same Rs. 1,499 that buys a 128GB pen drive on the same page. If your device can take a larger card, the larger card is almost always cheaper per gigabyte; it was without exception across all five formats here.























