Report: Hard Drive Market Continues to Grow
Report: Hard Drive Market Continues to Grow
Posted 03/17/2010 at 4:31am
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Don't go digging a grave for the hard drive market, even as SSDs start to come down in price and move towards the mainstream. According to a recently published report by The Information Network, hard drive makers managed to make it through the recession by showing growth in 2009.
The double digit growth nearly topped 11 percent on a unit basis, and if TIN's predictions come true, it will grow by another 11 percent in 2010.
"The market for 2009 was about product mix," noted Dr. Robert Castellano, president of The Information Network. "Seagate leads in the desktop and the enterprise markets, which are down for 2009, while Western Digital has focused on non-desktop applications, primarily 2.5-inch form factor for mobile and CE, which are up in 2009."
Once again, Seagate led the charge as the market leader with shipments of 174.8 million drives, edging out rival Western Digital, which shipped 165.2 million drives.
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M-ManLA
March 17, 2010 at 10:36am
I do agree HDDs are not out of it yet. The thing that SSDs still have to improve on is space and price. I do have a SSD for my MIDI files, but the other drives are still HDD.
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