Research firm estimates that about 652.4 million hard disks were shipped last year. Seagate shipped approximately 195,2 million units and Samsung approximately $ 66.0 million. Seagate will not be able to bridge the gap to WD now, as his rival has recently acquired Hitachi's Global storage and shipped 203.7 and 115.8 million units, leading to a market share of 50%.
The only other player left on the market is Toshiba/Fujitsu, shipped 71.7 million units, which struck a little more than 10% of the market.
"Overall, the reduction from five to three manufacturers significantly improves stability and efficiency of the hard drive industry," said Fang Zhang, IHS storage systems analyst. "However, the acquisition also signals a recognition by Seagate and Samsung that the conditions in the storage space will become more difficult in the future." The acquisition of Samsung hard drive $ 1.38 billion is widely suspected to access Seagate Samsung customers in the Asian market.
"Taken together, mergers by Seagate and Western Digital will be the key to improve the sustainability of the hard disk industry, according to IHS, demonstrating industry agile response to occurring fast"
"changes in the storage environment," says Ryan dog, researcher for memory and storage at IHS.
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