HDD mechanical hard disks have been around for decades, and they used to be necessary for installation. However, with the rise of SSD hard disks in recent years, many people do not buy mechanical hard disks. Some people think that SSDs will soon replace mechanical hard disks, but Toshiba executives A few days ago, it said that this will never happen, and the mechanical hard drive will not be replaced.
Toshiba is one of the world’s three major mechanical hard disk giants, with a market share second only to WD and Seagate. European CEO Rainer Kaese recently mentioned that in 2021, 259 million mechanical hard disks will be shipped worldwide, with a total capacity of 1.338ZB. Compared with 2020, it has increased by 1/3, and the capacity of HDD hard disk is unprecedented.
In Rainer Kaese’s view, SSD hard disks are expected to never replace mechanical hard disks, because the storage capacity requirements in almost all fields are increasing, and only mechanical hard disks can provide data centers, clouds, and other fields at low cost. storage capacity, these two storage media will continue to coexist in the future.
Mechanical hard disks are superior to SSD hard disks. They are the most economical means of commercial-grade large-scale online storage facilities. With the advancement of technology, the price per TB is still decreasing, while SSD hard disks have more expensive flash memory. much more, and cannot be mass-produced.
Shipments of enterprise hard drives plummeted last year
However, looking at the situation last year, it seems that the demand for mechanical hard drives on the enterprise side has a downward trend.
The latest report from Trendfocus describes the situation of the three giants of mechanical hard drives in the past year, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as “tragic”.
In terms of shipments, Seagate, Toshiba, and WD all experienced double-digit year-on-year declines. Even the smallest Toshiba, it was as high as 39%.
As a result, in 2022, the total shipment of mechanical hard disks will plummet by 42.5% year-on-year, almost cut in half.
The outside world believes that the collapse of the mechanical hard disk industry in the past year is closely related to factors such as inventory adjustments and economic cooling. In fact, PC-related graphics cards, memory/SSD, etc. have had a very difficult time in the same period.
In terms of breakdown, the biggest problem in the field of mechanical hard drives is the sharp drop in demand from cloud storage companies. In comparison, the situation of 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch consumer-grade hard drives is much better.
