Demand for computer components as well as ready-made computers was seen to increase two years ago, and only saw a decline around the middle of this year. Even so, one component is seen as not very viable in the market, namely hard disk storage.
Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba, three of the world’s largest hard drive developers have all seen sharp hard drive sales declines as high as 30 percent, and for Toshiba, they recorded sales declines of up to 40 percent due to very low demand.
A report from Trendfocus says that hard disk storage sales have declined at a rate of around 30 percent until the second quarter of 2022 from year-on-year compared to last year. Hard disk storage for the enterprise sector saw sales of 19 million units for regular hard drives, and as low as 2.5 million units for high -performance hard drives.
Even more worrying is the hard drive for the consumer sector, where 13 million 3.5 -inch hard drives and 11 million 2.5 -inch hard drives were sold over the past year. It is seen that hard drives are now only purchased as backups for user data, with people now typically more concerned with SSD storage for its much faster performance than hard drives.
SSD storage is now also increasingly showing a higher amount of storage, and although it is more expensive, users are now more willing to spend a little more money to ensure that the performance of their computers is always at the highest level.