Disk Drive Shipment Numbers Take A Dive
Blocks & Files, Tuesday, July 11,2023
Preliminary hard disk drive shipment numbers for the second 2023 quarter are down, according to TrendFocus, with Toshiba losing market share to Seagate and Western Digital.
The research house sends its numbers to paying subscribers and some, such as Wells Fargo, pass them on in turn to their subscribers and contacts. The figures should be taken with a pinch of salt, but TrendFocus says there were between 30.8 million to 32.2 million disk drives shipped in the quarter compared to 38.6 million shipped a year ago, a 20.2 percent drop. There was a 33.5 percent fall from Q1 2022 to Q1 2023..