In the second calendar quarter 2014 the former market leader in hard drives - Seagate company - cut , revenues, net income and the number of drives. For the second quarter Seagate sold 52.5 million HDD. According to the company, the activity of the PC market will affect the demand for hard disk drives in the third quarter.
During the reporting period, Western Digital has shipped 63.097 million hard drives. 10 million more than Seagate company . Was particularly high demand for drives for laptops. For the quarter Western Digital shipped 22.89 million mobile PC drives (Seagate - 16,8 million). Enterprise-class hard drives sold 7.09 million (Seagate - 7,4 million). In the latter case it is important that Seagate reduces shipments server HDD, while Western Digital has supplied three years ago for the quarter of just 2.4 million enterprise drives.
On other positions. Desktop Western Digital has released 16.18 million for the quarter drives. This is the only point on which Seagate is significantly ahead of the competition and placed in the same time 18.4 million HDD. For Western Digital consumer electronics for the quarter released 10.9 million HDD, a Seagate - 5,1 million Branded drives Western Digital has sold 6.01 million The company Seagate has dispersed 4.8 million branded hard drives. In Just a quarter in the market were supplied 138 million drives. Western Digital company now owns 45.7% of the market. Earlier quarter it had 43.8%.
If we talk about money, during the reporting quarter Western Digital has earned $ 3.7 billion in revenue. Net income was $ 317 million a year ago quarter revenue also was $ 3.7 billion, but was then recorded a net loss of $ 265 million .