WW Global HDDs Shipped Down 14% Quarterly in 1Q20

Reduction of client HDDs resulting of Covid-19, but 14% Q/Q jump in nearline units driving total capacity record to 262EB

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on May 15, 2020 at 2:14 pm

In its SDAS: HDD Information Service, CQ1 ’20 Quarterly Update, published on May 4, 2020, analysts’ company Trendfocus, Inc. published the following abstract of one of the tables:

1CQ20 WW HDD shipments

Vendor	Exabytes	HDDs in million	HDDs Q/Q growth	HDDs market share in units
Seagate	119.58	29.23	-10.7%	43.2%
Toshiba	32.14	14.06	-13.7%	20.8%
WDC	110.62	24.35	-17.0%	36.0%
TOTAL	262.35	67.64	-13.7%	100%

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