Part of the Western Digital company HGST in the development of hard drives in the medium term, making a bet on a helium-filled solutions. In the second half of next year the manufacturer plans to offer corporate customers drives volume of 10 TB, which already exist in the form of samples.
The manufacturer sees the immediate future of the hard disks market. They predicted that the total size of the market will be reduced if this year will be sold about 550 million Hard drives, the next year their number reduced to 538 mln Pieces. The use of solid-state drives, and the overall decline in demand for laptop computers will reduce the volume of sales of the respective hard drive from 161 million Units this year to 147 mln Pieces in the following. In the desktop segment, too, it makes no sense to expect growth: sales volumes of hard disks should be reduced from 152 million To 150 mln. Pieces.
Contrary to this trend will move a segment of external hard drives and local network storage, as the demand for mobile devices, with their tiny by the standards of the industry will be SSD increases in sales of external disk drives - from 82 million Units this year to 87 million Pieces next . In addition, the "cloud" storage will inevitably demand more and more capacious hard disk drives. Although the average number sold in the corporate sector hard drives will remain unchanged, the cost will grow by about 1-3%, and the average capacity will increase by 15-20%.