TrendFocus, according to the Storage Newsletter resource, has summed up preliminary results of the development of the global HDD market in the third quarter of 2024. Total drive shipments ranged from 30.8 million to 32.6 million units, while their total capacity exceeded 325 EB. Sales are growing against the backdrop of good demand for Nearline solutions.
It is noted that year-on-year HDD shipments in units increased by 7.4–13.7%. In the segment of enterprise-class LFF and SFF hard drives, shipments amounted to about 15.3 million units. with a total capacity of 275 EB. At the same time, about 0.8 million productive HDDs were sold.
The largest player is Seagate with a share of 40.6–40.8%: during the third quarter, this company sold 12.5–13.3 million drives, demonstrating year-on-year growth of 3.9–10.6%. In second place in the ranking is Western Digital, occupying 40.2–40.3% of the global market: the company sold 12.4–13.1 million devices, which is 19.1–25.8% more compared to the third quarter of 2023 th. Toshiba closes the top three, holding 19.0–19.2% of the industry: this company’s deliveries for the year decreased by 5.3–0.5%, reaching the level of 5.9–6.2 million units.
The study said quarterly shipments of LFF products for desktop PCs and consumer electronics (including solutions for video surveillance systems) amounted to about 9 million units. Deliveries of SFF devices for laptops and electronics were fixed at 6.4 million units.
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