Even though most laptops and desktop PCs are now shipped with solid state units (SSD), hard disk drives (HDD) saw a resurgence on sales during the second quarter of this year.
According to a new Trendfocus, Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital report sent a record of 350.7 hard disk storage exabytes during Q2 of 2021. However, while Seagate retained the first place, Western Digital was ready to catch up with more than nine percent trimester to trimester growth.
A total of 67.6m hard drives were sent during the second quarter of 2021 according to Trendfocus’ Although NIDEC, which is the largest independent producer of the hard drive engines, it considers that the industry sent 64m units during the second quarter, although The difference between both figures of companies is currently difficult to explain.
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A possible explanation is due to the fact that two of the three largest hard drive suppliers do not publish detailed units shipments while only one post Exabyte Agreement with Tom Hardware.
HDD resurgence
When it comes to the amount of hard drives sent during Q2, Seagate sent 28.17m while Western Digital was close to its biggest rival in space with 25.4m units sold and Toshiba sent 13.98m. As a result Seagate has a market share of 41 percent, followed by Western Digital with 37 percent and 20 percent in Toshiba.
In a press release that details how Toshiba Hard Discs were almost online able to establish new records in Q2, Vice President of Trendfocus John Chen provides a greater understanding of why the demand for hard drives rose last quarter, saying :
“The demand for hard drives, hard drives specifically Nearline, have followed a rising trend due to the strong demand of cloud and OEM, while the initial release of the Chia cryptomoneda fueled new incremental channel requirements.”
Although Chia storage-based cryptomoned helped increase the demand for something, Nearline and the demand of the HDD company was truly responsible for increased hard drive shipments for during the second quarter.
