{"id":598701,"date":"2023-01-18T06:49:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T12:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/hard-drive-shipments-nearly-halved-in-2022\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T06:49:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T12:49:45","slug":"hard-drive-shipments-nearly-halved-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/hard-drive-shipments-nearly-halved-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard drive shipments nearly halved in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why it matters:<\/strong> A recent report from Trendfocus shows SSD sales continue to rise dramatically, while HDD manufacturers are noticing record-breaking declines in overall shipments. Analysts estimate that shipments declined by more than 40 percent compared to 2021. <\/p>\n

For decades, HDDs were consumers’ go-to choice for PC storage. Hard disk drives offered an excellent balance of high capacity at lower costs. However, HDDs have begun to be outclassed by solid-state drives (SSDs), which generally provide better performance at a higher price. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), HDDs still held a higher market share for years due to the significantly better cost per GB and larger storage capacities.<\/p>\n

However, this changed<\/a> for the first time in 2020, when SSDs outsold HDDs. A leading factor in this shift in sales likely rests on SSD prices finally becoming manageable for even the most budget-minded PC users. Surprisingly, Statista noted in September that HDD shipment levels went nearly unchanged<\/a> in 2021, falling by only 0.5%. Unfortunately for manufacturers, this stagnation didn’t last long.<\/p>\n

The latest report from Trendfocus analysts covers the quarterly and yearly changes<\/a> for the three largest HDD manufacturers –Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital Corp. (WDC). The results provided in the analysis don’t bode well for those producers.<\/p>\n

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The three leading manufacturers noticed a steep drop in 2022. Seagate took the most brutal hit, with estimates ranging between -41.7 and -43.7 percent in HDD sales. Western Digital dipped nearly as much, falling 40.7 to 43 percent. Toshiba faired the best but still saw losses of 37.7 and 39.3 percent.<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, despite the sharp decline in shipments, 2.5″ HDDs still “rebounded” by nearly 15 percent quarter-for-quarter. However, these were the only drives that saw an increase in sales. Consumer drives declined by mid-single-digit percentages, which, while not promising, is still a far cry from what occurred in the enterprise industry.<\/p>\n

Sales of enterprise-focused drives tanked due to “falling cloud demand” within businesses. Trendfocus points out that Seagate, Toshiba, and WDC sold an estimated 11.5\u201312.5 million enterprise drives combined, which sounds like a large number. However, it still resulted in a 25-percent decline in quarter-to-quarter shipments.<\/p>\n

Overall, there appears to be no end to the decline in HDD sales. Solid-state drive prices are quickly falling to near HDD levels, with 500 GB SSDs even reaching price parity with 500 GB HDDs. There’s reason to believe this parity will spread<\/a> to SSDs above 500 GB by the end of 2023, which could spell disaster for HDD manufacturers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Larisa Schroeder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why it matters: A recent report from Trendfocus shows SSD sales continue to rise dramatically, while HDD manufacturers are noticing record-breaking declines in overall shipments. Analysts estimate that shipments declined by more than 40 percent compared to 2021. For decades, HDDs were consumers’ go-to choice for PC storage. Hard disk drives offered an excellent balance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":598702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24676,34150,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-598701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-drive","8":"category-shipments","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}