Global HDD sales drop another 12% to 77 million devices for Q1 2019

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You probably have noticed that SSDs came, saw and conquered the storage markets the past few years. And that certainly has an effect on HDD sales. In the years to come I predict there will be a tipping point where productions ramps down and HDDs will become more expensive than SSDs. 



The first signs of the dropping HDD market is here if we look at the first quarterly figures of 2019from a Trendfocus article it shows that the sales numbers of 3.5 and 2.5-inch consumer HDDs have dropped significantly. Interestingly enough sales of business HDDs, on the other hand, have risen.

In the first quarter of 2019, 24.5 million disks were shipped out which is roughly four million less than the last quarter of 2018. The number of 2.5-inch devices (often used in laptops) has dropped by 6 million units to 37 million.


Vendor HDDs
in million
Q/Q growth Y/Y growth 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%

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Global HDD sales drop another 12% to 77 million devices for Q1 2019


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