Demand for hard drives expected to decrease 50% this year

The era of PC hard drives is slowly coming to an end, giving way to new technologies and better storage solutions, such as solid drives or SSDs.

Hard drive sales will drop as much as 50% in 2019

The fact that hard drives disappear should come as no surprise, especially since they are still the only real bottleneck in most modern computers. But we must also remember that hard drives are present in many other places, such as servers, which probably cover the majority of the market that still needs them.

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Information on this trend comes through Anandtech , and the company Nidec, which is responsible for manufacturing 85% of all motors for hard drives. They have been observing a diminishing need for their products, and are in a unique position to know and anticipate the market.

Nidec estimates that demand for magnetic PC drives will decrease 50% year-over-year. Some 77 million hard drives were shipped in 2017, and that number is expected to halve in 2019.

Interestingly, Nidec says that demand for disks in data centers is expected to increase in 2019. Since there are no alternatives to hard drives for data centers and the demand for more and more space is always on the rise, there are There is little reason to believe that things will change substantially in the coming years in this segment.

Typically, the decline in sales of magnetic discs will be accentuated year after year in the common market, while SSD drives can offer greater storage capacity and lower prices.

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