The hard drive market has turned around in recent years, leaving behind those who were the kings of the market. Currently, it is very difficult to see a computer that includes a mechanical hard drive or HDD. According to the latest report from StorageNewsletter, the The hard drive market plunged 15% in the last quarter.
HDD hard drives have been replaced by SSDs, which makes perfect sense. An SSD offers faster transfer speeds, lower power consumption, and greater endurance because it has no moving parts. Although hard drives, due to their capacities, are very valuable to the mass storage segment, it seems that this segment is also reducing their demand.
Steady decline in hard drive sales
These days, it’s practically impossible to find a laptop or desktop computer without an SSD. The Con PS5 and Xbox Series X consoleshave also stopped using HDD hard drives, moving to SSD for its excellent performance. Only mass storage is maintained, but for how long?
StorageNewsletter reports that the sale of hard drives fell 15% during the last trimester. The drop in demand from the PC and OEM equipment segments stands out. Despite the decline in sales, the total capacity of hard drives shipped was only reduced by 2%. This is possible because hard drives have more and more capacity.
The manufacturer Seagate suffered a fall share distribution of 14%, distributing less than 20 million units. The Nearline segment stands out, a segment that is an intermediate point between offline storage and online storage. According to this, sales fell by 5% for this segment, but yes, the average capacity increased from 1.2 TB to 14.4 TB.
A drop in demand is also seen in the business units, registering a loss of 10%. But the good thing is that the units intended for SINs increased by 4% and for video surveillance increased by 8%.
The company Toshiba saw demand reduced by 15% during the last trimester. The segment that fell the least was the business units, which fell only 3%, but the rest fell sharply.
WD also suffers from fallbut more noticeably, by dropping the request 17%. All divisions of the company suffer a double-digit decline, being the one that is going through the worst period.
Who else is suffering is the hard drive market
We see that there is a big crisis in the sale of equipment, since there seems to be a strong stagnation in sales. But where it seems to have the most impact is in the hard drive segment.
Also, no one wants a mechanical hard drive in their system because they are extremely slow. More and more users are opting for SSDs and in particular for disks in M.2 format. The SATA standard is completely obsolete, which has not received major improvements since 2016.
Although HDDs have the strength to offer more capacity than SSDs for a lower price, this is offset by the performance that the latter drives can offer. Although the mechanical hard drive segment is far from exhausted, it seems that there is less and less demand and the trend will continue.
