A report by StorageNewsletter reveals that tough drive shipments have declined by 15% this quarter, because of weak PC market demand and OEM demand. However regardless of this, the full laborious drive shipped capability has solely dropped by 2%, because of more and more giant HDDs.
Seagate suffered a 14% unit discount this quarter, falling to a complete of 19.88 million laborious drives shipped. Nearline drives declined by 5% to eight.61 million as properly, nonetheless common nearline drive capability elevated by 1.2TB to 14.4TB on common. Nearline is a kind of storage appearing as a center floor between offline storage (rare information entry) and on-line storage (information that is accessed continually).
Efficiency enterprise items shipped additionally fell by 10% quarter over quarter to 1.63 million items. However regardless of these quarterly setbacks, shipments for Nearline items and NAS and surveillance HDDs have gone up by 4% and eight% respectively.
StorageNewsletter additionally says that each one different Seagate segments have seen double-digit declines because of weak client spending and the continued energy of SSD adoption.
Toshiba is going through an analogous destiny with its shipped capability of 16.18EB plunging by 15% quarter over quarter. Unit values additionally fell by 17% over the identical quarterly interval to eight.29 million. Quarterly nearline shipments fell by 17% to 2.09 million items, and the full shipped capability of 26.88EB declined 15% sequentially. Efficiency enterprise drives additionally got here down by 3% quarter over quarter.
WDC noticed related dips in HDD items and capability shipped, with a 17% discount in items to 16.48 million laborious drives, and all different segments declined by double-digits through the quarter.
Total, the storage business is going through a big drop in demand, as a result of weakened PC market general in 2022, and a steady enhance in SSD demand fueling laborious drive replacements. Total storage capability shipped hasn’t dropped a lot, nonetheless. This means bigger capability laborious drives have gotten extra mainstream, whereas decrease capability 1TB and even 2TB drives are being changed by SSDs.
