HDD: Hot and happening
The future seems good for the hard disk
drive market. TrendFOCUS, market
analyzer for the data storage industry has
given a prescient account of the shipping
of 445 million hard drives in the year
2006. Their leading market forecast tool,
the Storage Demand Analysis System,
has taken into consideration issues
like consolidation, infrastructure, and
technological challenges and declared that
the market will remain vibrant
and competitive till 2010.
According to
TrendFOCUS, three main
factors will affect the
HDD market. Firstly, the
growth in demand will
stay for the next ? ve
years as the demand of PCs
is likely to increase in countries
like India and China and this will
be complemented by the low price
of notebooks across the world. Also,
the need for hard disk drives in consumer
electronics products like personal video
recorders (PVR), automobile navigation
systems, digital audio/video players and
the like will also boost the manufacture
and supply of HDDs. TrendFOCUS predicts
that by 2010 the shipment of HDDs will
increase to 750 million. However, 60
percent of the supply will still be for the
computing market.
Secondly, market acquisition will play
another important role in boosting the
supply. Seagates acquisition of Maxtor w
smooth-price
the products, which wil
act as a catalyst for more
consolidation across the
value chain.
Finally, TrendFOCUS
zeroes on the HDD
industrys transition to
perpendicular magneti
recording (PMR)
technology. Though this will
take some time and involve massive
capital investments from the supply
infrastructure, it will be a milestone in
the HDD industry, and will in turn up the
supply curve.
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