AIRANKS — The Authoritative Rankings for AI Web Content

AIRANKS measures AI visibility: we ask AI models real product and service questions, capture the complete answers as immutable observations, and publish what they contain — which brands were mentioned, which domains were cited, and which exact pages were linked. Every domain gets an AIR score from 1–10 (a decile of visibility in the active dataset; 0 means insufficient data), with the methodology in the open.

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The Question

← all rankings / dataset COBALT

What is the best rugged external drive

Samsung takes the top spot in 100.0% of resamples. Of 9 ranked brands, only 2 hold a position we'd call firm.

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Who AI Cites For This Question

25 cited pages · bars vs the leader

Portable SSD T7 Shield 1TB USB 3.2 | Samsung USwww.samsung.comsamsung.com/us/memory-storage/port…m/?utm=airanks.net31
Portable SSD T7 Shield 1TB USB 3.2 | Samsung USwww.samsung.comsamsung.com/us/computing/memory-st…m/?utm=airanks.net16
Crucial X10 Pro Portable SSD Keep rolling with twww.crucial.comcrucial.com/content/dam/crucial/ss…df?utm=airanks.net14
Best external hard drive of 2026: Expert picks based on real-world testingwww.techradar.comtechradar.com/news/best-external-d…es?utm=airanks.net12

The Ranking, With Its Uncertainty

Samsung locked Samsung — ci 1.00–1.00 · n=113 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 98% of answers
SanDisk contested SanDisk — ci 0.75–0.88 · n=113 · 49.4% of resamples held this rank · named in 54% of answers
LaCie contested LaCie — ci 0.75–0.88 · n=113 · 49.4% of resamples held this rank · named in 54% of answers
Seagate locked Seagate — ci 0.63–0.63 · n=113 · 97.7% of resamples held this rank · named in 19% of answers
OWC contested OWC — ci 0.25–0.50 · n=113 · 60.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 6% of answers
Crucial contested Crucial — ci 0.25–0.50 · n=113 · 50.7% of resamples held this rank · named in 7% of answers
ADATA gathering ADATA — gathering data, n=113. No bootstrap interval yet.
Kingston gathering Kingston — gathering data, n=113. No bootstrap interval yet.
PNY gathering PNY — gathering data, n=113. No bootstrap interval yet.

The Incomparability Lattice

what the intervals separate, not what the list claims

An edge means one brand's interval sits strictly above another's — zero overlap. No edge between two brands is not a gap in the drawing, it is the finding: their intervals overlap, and the bootstrap cannot tell them apart. Brands on the same rung are incomparable, not tied — the ranking above orders them anyway because a list has to print a total order; this diagram is the honest version.

Samsung

1.00–1.00

SanDisk

0.75–0.88

LaCie

0.75–0.88

Seagate

0.63–0.63

OWC

0.25–0.50

Crucial

0.25–0.50