Seagate Technology leads a
thriving hard-disk drive (HDD) industry, driven by demand for low-cost,
high-capacity storage devices, according to analyst iSuppli. Unlike the
Nand flash chip industry, HDD vendors resisted the worst of the
economic slowdown by learning to control their costs, argued Krishna
Chander, senior analyst for storage systems at iSuppli.
The industry also got lucky
with rising demand for more storage in PCs because new applications
call for more HDD capacity. The threat of solid-state disk has not
materialised yet, as HDD offers a cheap practical answer to
today’s challenges, i-Suppli added. “Provided demand for
low-cost storage capacity keeps rising, the HDD industry will find ways
to deliver,” said Chander. In the first quarter of 2008, HDD
vendors shipped 137 million units, up 21 per cent year on year.
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