Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Market Shares, 2021: Year Shaped by Ability to Supply High-Capacity HDDs
This IDC study reviews the worldwide HDD vendor market shares for 2021."Worldwide HDD industry revenue soared by 17.6% in 2021 due to an acceleration in cloud migration, stronger demand from private datacenters as many of those projects were restarted, and better-than-expected demand from client compute applications due to ongoing strong demand from the stay-at-home economy," according to Ed Burns, research director for Hard Disk Drives, IDC. "Revenue shares did shift, with Toshiba as the only HDD supplier gaining share. Toshiba's share gain was primarily due to good execution on capacity-optimized shipments to cloud service providers and OEMs coupled with favorable comparisons to 2020 due to supply chain issues that year for Toshiba."
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- IDC Market Share Figure
- Executive Summary
- Advice for Technology Suppliers
- Market Share
- Worldwide HDD Market — All Market Segments
- Enterprise HDD Product Segments
- Who Shaped the Year
- Seagate
- Toshiba
- Western Digital
- Market Context
- Significant Market Developments
- Enterprise HDD Market Revenue Was up Approximately 31% from 2020 to 2021
- Client HDD Demand Better than Expected for Most of 2021 But Still in Long-Term Decline Due to Increasing SSD Attach Rates
- Methodology
- Market Definition
- Related Research
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