Quarterly Report Western Digital Corp. has allowed management to say that half of the increase in revenue for the year due to the increase in demand for hard drives for server applications, including cloud system. That drives this type of WDC provide approximately 30% of revenues and in terms of total capacity drives they occupy 36% of the production supply structure.
WDC Guide on the reporting quarterly conference explained that the helium-filled drives 10 TB volume is well accepted by the customers, which they are already receiving. In the past with the end of 2013, the company has shipped more than 10 million. Hard drives filled with helium. Who issued the third generation of the corresponding drive, and it allows to further improve the magnetic data recording technology. The total capacity shipped "helium" drives from the brand exceeded 76 exabytes.
According to the head of the WDC, in the foreseeable future, hard disks, magnetic plates have to coexist with solid state drives, and final rejection of the first in favor of the latter will not happen. Now the price difference between SSD and HDD comparable capacity can be from five to ten times.