As we all know, mechanical hard disks have had a hard time in recent years, especially with slow technological progress and little improvement in capacity and performance. Especially when SSDs are making great strides, users and the market naturally refuse to buy them.
According to the latest research data of TrendFocus, Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba shipped 3350-34.9 million mechanical hard disks in the first quarter of 2023, a year-on-year drop of 33.9-36.5% and a month on month drop of 3.8-7.6%.
Among them, the shipment of near line hard disks was about 10.2 million pieces, with a year-on-year slump of 54.3%, which was the worst; The total capacity is 157EB, 36% less than that of the previous year and 1% less than that of the previous month.
The shipments of PC clients and consumer electronic hard disks were about 22.5 million, down 28% year on year, including about 12.5 million 3.5-inch hard disks and 10 million 2.5-inch hard disks, down 24% and 33% respectively.
