One well-known Taiwanese life yesterday focused on the plans for Seagate to find a place in the market of storage devices, which gradually transformed. Representatives of the company found it necessary to clarify that Seagate is not going to cut funding for development, allowing to create a more capacious hard disk drives on magnetic plates, and is given to the development of this type of production the most attention.
New publication DigiTimes resource continues analytical subject, affecting the global market for hard drives. According to the Japanese association IDEMA, last year, was released 425.8 million. Hard drives, which is 9.2% less than in the previous year. And this year, the volume of supply of hard drives may be up to 407.7 million. Pieces. The peak value of this indicator was in 2010 - when it was released 651.4 million hard drives.. Then there was the flooding in Thailand caused a shortage of hard drives and the jump in prices, and gradually began to intercept SSDs initiative .
It is important to note that the total volume produced by hard drives continues to grow with 535.8 exabytes in 2015 to 756 exabytes in the current (target value). Hard drives are still in demand in data storage systems, servers and other computing solutions, "the cloud era". It is noteworthy that the issue hard drive form factor of 1.8 "virtually terminated, and 2.5-inch hard drives are sold worse.