Seagate's Guide on its own quarterly reporting conference considered it necessary to state that Toshiba withdrawal from the market hard drives - it is only a matter of time.
Meanwhile, according to published resources Storage Newsletter TrendFocus statistics, in the fourth calendar quarter of last year, Toshiba has managed to keep 16.7% of the market of hard disks. This is a decent figure, since in some years the share of the Japanese manufacturer had no more than 10% of the market. Formally, in the last quarter, Toshiba even strengthened its position in the segment of hard drives for laptops.
In the desktop segment, a slight progress compared to the third quarter can speak only Western Digital Corporation. Seagate is inferior both in the number of sold hard drive, and on financial performance. According to TrendFOCUS, in the fourth quarter the market hard drives has shrunk by 3.3% compared with the previous quarter, most sales used in consumer electronics and laptops.
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