Hard Drive Sales Have Dropped Again: The End of HDDs?

Hard drives, which were once considered as one of the basic components of computers, are far from their former popularity today. This is also reflected in the number of hard drives sold. Users to SSDs or as we turn to other flash solutions, the effect of this situation seems to increase.

According to Trendfocus’s reports, hard drive sales dropped to 45 million units in the second quarter of this year. When we look at it on a yearly basis, this corresponds to a decrease of 33 percent. in 2010 On the other hand, annual hard disk shipments were 650 million and average shipments per quarter were 162 million.

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Hard disk demand to be used in production from companies this quarter 2.5 million units fell down. The main reason for this situation is shown as the fact that the manufacturers use the products they already have. Disruptions in the production of other parts also negatively affect the hard disk market.

On the consumer side, the situation is even more complicated. 3.5 inch Shipments of desktop hard drives fell more than 30 percent to around 13 million units. Trendfocus also said that demand from security, PC and retail has weakened significantly.

The biggest decrease is 2.5 inch hard drives was in the field. While the decrease in this area has reached 40 percent, the amount of shipment has decreased to 11 million. The explanation for this situation is quite simple, almost all laptop manufacturers now prefer flash-based storage units.

Mined using free disk spaces in the past year chia The decrease in the demand for hard disks was prevented, albeit a little, thanks to the cryptocurrency. In the absence of such support this year, the decline in hard disk sales was even more obvious.