You in all probability have seen that SSDs got here, noticed and conquered the storage markets the previous few years. And that definitely has an impact on HDD gross sales. In the years to return I predict there can be a tipping level the place productions ramps down and HDDs will grow to be dearer than SSDs.
The first indicators of the dropping HDD market is right here if we take a look at the primary quarterly figures of 2019from a Trendfocus article it reveals that the gross sales numbers of three.5 and a couple of.5-inch client HDDs have dropped considerably. Interestingly sufficient gross sales of enterprise HDDs, alternatively, have risen.
In the primary quarter of 2019, 24.5 million disks have been shipped out which is roughly 4 million lower than the final quarter of 2018. The variety of 2.5-inch units (typically utilized in laptops) has dropped by 6 million items to 37 million.
| Vendor | HDDs in million |
Q/Q development | Y/Y development | Market share |
| Seagate | 31.40 – 31.80 | -14.5% / -13.4% | -14.4% / -13.4% | 41.0% – 40.9% |
| Toshiba | 18.30 – 18.70 | -13.3% / -11.4% | -11.3% / -9.3% | 23.9% – 24.0% |
| WDC | 26.90 – 27.30 | -10.8% / -9.5% | -26.1% / -25.0% | 35.1% – 35.1% |
| TOTAL | 76.60 – 77.80 | -12.9% / -11.6% | -18.3% / -17.0% | 100% – 100% |
