Western Digital Leapfrogs Seagate in HDD Shipments
Western Digital Leapfrogs Seagate in HDD Shipments
Posted 06/03/2010 at 5:49am
| by Paul Lilly
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For the first time ever, hard disk drive (HDD) shipments from Western Digital have zipped past Seagate, according to a report by market research firm iSuppli.
Western Digital managed to ship 51.1 million HDDs for the first quarter of 2010, a 3.2 percent increase from the 49.5 million units it shipped in the fourth quarter of 2009. That was enough to finally edge out Seagate, which shipped 50.3 million, up 0.8 percent from 49.9 million over the prior quarter.
While Western Digital wins the quarterly shipment war, Seagate still has the edge in revenue. According to iSuppli, Seagate's revenue numbers sit at $3.1 billion, a good chunk higher than Western Digital's $2.64 billion.
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gendoikari1
June 03, 2010 at 1:56pm
I like this, because the first time I bought a Seagate drive was the last time I bought a Seagate drive.
violian
June 03, 2010 at 10:46am
I'd love to see the details of this report. Like of the total HDD's shipped, how many were 2.5" and 3.5"? And of the HDD's shipped, how many were bare drives and how many of them were shipped as external HDD's? The numbers would then tell us where the trend is going - do people prefer to save content on externals or internals, etc.
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