Number of HDDs Shipped Worldwide From 1976 to 2018

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Number of HDDs Shipped Worldwide From 1976 to 2018
Increasing each year until 2010 and then declining constantly
February 19, 2018
https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2019/02/19/number-of-hdds-shipped-worldwide-from-1976-to-2018/

This invaluable chart shows the number of HDDs shipped for more than 40 years and the birth of the industry until to 2018 as well as estimations from 2019 to 2022.

Since the beginning these figures below were always growing until 2010 with a small decrease in 2001 for worldwide economical reasons, and began to constantly decline (but for 2014) until 2018. CAGR for the global period remains high: +24%. But it was +26.5% until 2010 but then -9.4% from 2010 to 2018.

The previsions from 2019 to 2022 shows that this trend will continue mainly because of the SSD competition, the last market for magnetic disk drive market becoming very high capacity 3.5-inch HDDs continuing to have a lower price per gigabyte than silicon memories, and for several years if the areal density of HDDs continues to increase even if it’s also the case for SSDs with higher and higher capacity of integrated chips.
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