Hard-drives on their way out
 

HDD shipments across the board for all HDD applications were down 12.3 per cent over the prior quarter, despite the fact that the average HDD capacities increased.

According to the first quarter of 2016 results reported by Seagate, the average shipped capacity increased from 1.32 TB to 1.42 TB which is a 7.6 per cent increase. Western Digital average shipped capacity increased from 1.39 TB to 1.44 TB – 3.6 percent more.

During the quarter, Seagate joined Western Digital in announcing it was shipping 10 TB He-filled HDDs, currently the peak HDD capacity point, for the enterprise Near-Line and Active Archive storage markets.

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