May 08, 2019 06:00:00

'The number of PC HDD sales will halve in 2019,' Nidec predicts the top share of HDD parts worldwide

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Nidec ( Nidec ) , a Japanese manufacturer of electrical equipment, maintains the world's top share of spindle motors installed in HDDs and other devices. Such Nidec has announced that 'the shipment volume of PC HDDs may decrease by nearly 50% in 2019 compared to the previous year'.

Shipments of PC Hard Drives Predicted to Drop By Nearly 50% in 2019
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14298/shipments-of-pc-hdds-predicted-to-halve-in-2019

Nidec, which boasts an 85% share of spindle motors for HDDs worldwide, will present a graph entitled “Medium- and long-term trends in the HDD market” in the financial results presentation for the fiscal year ending March 2019. did.

According to data released by Nidec, HDD unit sales, which were 650 million units in 2010, decreased to 365 million units by 2018, and the reduction is actually 43%. This downward trend is expected to continue, and the HDD shipment number in 2019 is initially expected to be 365 million units, but will be lowered to 39 million units in the fiscal year ending March 2019 I am correcting it. Sales are expected to decline further by 2020, falling to 290 million units.

Above all, sales are decreasing significantly for HDDs for PCs, and the shift to SSDs that use semiconductor memory and the weakening of the market seem to be the major factors. Not only sales of HDDs for PCs have fallen from 289 million units in 2013 to 124 million units in 2018, but the forecasted sales volume in 2019 is 65 million units and 2018 to 2019 The descent of the year is expected to be as much as 48%. Sales of HDDs in other fields are also decreasing, but external HDDs are almost flat, and HDDs for data center applications are expected to rise.

Nidec is expected to maintain a strong share of HDD spindle motors and expect to maintain an 85% share through 2019.

The unit price of SSDs continued to decline in 2018, which was a welcome year for users, and the technology competition among major manufacturers was strong, and it helped boost SSD's share of storage devices. Manufacturers that manufacture HDD parts etc. are expected to continue to be pushed by the rise of SSDs in 2019.

2018 SSD Technology Trends Summarized A Great Year for the SSD Market With Continued Price Drops-GIGAZINE