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HDD Shipments Almost Halved in 2022
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/hdd-shipments-almost-halved-in-2022
A new report from Trendfocus shines a light on the carnage in the mechanical storage industry as we start 2023. The Storage Newsletter shared an excerpt from the Trendfocus research work, which spans 2022 and covers the largest HDD storage providers, their shipments, and their market shares. All suffered dramatic declines in shipments over the past year, with Seagate and WDC seeing their shipments almost halve.

According to this data, the worst market performer is the biggest member of the HDD industry triumvirate. Seagate’s HDD shipments dropped as much as 43.7% last year, and WDC was almost as bad, with a 43.0% slide over the same period. However, Toshiba was by no means unscathed by 2022, with the scale of its HDD shipments declining in the same ballpark as its rivals, with shipments falling at as much as 39.3% YoY.

Vendor	HDDs in million	Q/Q change	Y/Y change	Market share
Seagate	15.10 – 15.60	-3.9% -0.7%	-43.7% -41.7%	42.9 – 42.9%
Toshiba	7.80 – 8.0	-2.6% -0.1%	-39.3% -37.7%	22.2% – 22.0%
WDC	12.30 – 12.80	-16.2% -12.7%	-43.0% -40.7%	34.9% – 35.2%
TOTAL	35.20 – 36.40	-8.3% – 5.2%	-42.5 -40.5%	100%