IHS iSuppli Analysts summed up the second quarter on the market of hard disk drives. According to their calculations, the supplies volume rised slightly compared with the previous period. A total of 167.1 million drives shipped, which is 4.1% more than in the first quarter (160.5 million drives).
The industry leader in terms of supply is Western Digital (WD). It owns 32% of the market. Then we have Seagate Technology - its share is 31%.
The rest of market is divided between Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (16%), Toshiba / Fujitsu (11%) and Samsung Electronics (10%) company.
In terms of revenue WD took the second place. At first place we have Seagate company : 2,9 billion dollars against 2.4 billion dollars for WD.
According to analysts, in the third quarter shipment growth will continue, but remain at a low level - 3.4%.