iSuppli: Tablet PC sales increase damage to HDD market

March 9, Beijing time, according to foreign media reports, according to research firm iSuppli's survey, the current solid-state hard disk tablet PC sales continue to increase, which has played a certain degree of inhibition to the hard disk drive (HDD) shipments, the data show 2011 In the first quarter of the year, HDD shipments will decline by 4%.

The market research company warned that the tablet PC's erosion of the netbook market will seriously affect HDD shipments. The decline in HDD demand is mainly in the desktop, notebook, netbook and other consumer electronics products.

Although HDD's market demand has increased in the area of ​​enterprise business and entry-level servers, the total sales volume of HDDs will eventually decline. Experts said that the first quarter was traditionally a period of weak demand, coupled with an oversupply of 6-8 million in the quarter, which made the HDD market even worse.

Western Digital is still the leader in the HDD market, with shipments reaching 52.2 million units; Seagate shipments are 48.9 million units; and Hitachi Global Storage is 30.3 million units. With the shipment of Apple's ipad2 and the introduction of more tablets, the days of HDD manufacturers will not be better.