Hard Drive Shipments Expected to Drop Nearly 50 Percent YoY

With solid-state drives (SSDs) coming into worth and mainstream worth segments, and the transition in customers’ data-storage conduct from native storage to the cloud, there may be anticipated to be a dramatic fall in shipments of exhausting disk drives (HDDs) in 2019. Japanese firm Nidec, which manufactures almost 85% of all DC motors to be used in HDDs throughout the trade, estimates an almost 50 % drop in HDD shipments for 2019. Since these motors are particularly designed to be used in HDDs, it’s instantly proportional to new HDD shipments, thus presenting a dependable outlook of the HDD trade itself. The DC motor inside HDDs is a non user-replaceable part as detaching it includes opening the seal of the disk chamber, thereby contaminating it.

In 2010, Nidec shipped almost 650 million motors, which dropped considerably all the way down to 375 million motors in 2018, indicating the sharp decline within the HDD trade. While Nidec will ship as few as 290 million motors in 2019, it estimates shipments of HDDs to go down by almost 50 % year-over-year (YoY). Data facilities are swallowing up giant volumes of high-capacity (>10 TB) HDDs for warm- and cold-storage at the same time as SSDs and DRAM are searched for hot-storage. The client-segment, nevertheless, is now firmly enthusiastic about SSDs, with even mainstream laptops packing SSDs. Prominent HDD producers Seagate, Western Digital, and Toshiba, have every invested closely in increase SSD product strains, and specializing their HDD portfolio for enterprise and quasi-enterprise (eg: NAS, NVR, high-uptime shopper) markets.