HDD Shipments to Drop by 35% in Q4 2011
Seagate has just lowered its shipment forecast for Q4 again.
The impact of the flood in Thailand is much more dramatic than previously estimated. Along with a 10 to 18 percent decrease to 41 to 45 million units, according to a report published by Digitimes, it appears that the HDD industry's shipments will decline by more than 35 percent in the current quarter.
According to Digitimes, WD, Seagate, Hitachi and Toshiba will ship only about 103 million units in Q4, down from 162 million in Q3. WD may be hit the hardest, with shipments estimated to be in the 22 to 26 million range, down from 58 million in Q3. Hitachi may drop from 32 million to 20 million and Toshiba from 22 million to 12 million.
According to Seagate, the global demand calls for about 180 million drives in Q4.
Don't come to my house, I fill up drives rather fast. Video projects to other interests like backups ect. Got 8 drives in my game rig, 3x 2TB that I paid $80 a few months ago, 4x 1TB, and a little 30gb ssd that I use for paging.
The big issue is that everybody thinks they need a TB drive in their PC, which is totally untrue. There are very few situations that call even for the mass of a 500 gb drive. Unless you're pirating tons of music/videos, taking DSLR high res photos and storing thousands of them, or running some manner of home or corporate server, there is no reason you should need even more than 120 GB of storage, even with an install on it.
Anybody who says otherwise doesn't know how to properly manage storage space. I recently had to install Arkham City on my PC with a 120 GB SSD, and although I had to clean off some unused items, I managed to make room with about 5 gb to spare.
Point is most people just have junk all over their pc.
Don't come to my house, I fill up drives rather fast. Video projects to other interests like backups ect. Got 8 drives in my game rig, 3x 2TB that I paid $80 a few months ago, 4x 1TB, and a little 30gb ssd that I use for paging.
None in Thailand.
Most are made in China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan ,USA.
Don't draw conclusions representing EVERYONE'S situation based on your experience. It seems as though you are representing the average user in your assumption, not the smaller percentage of the market. So technically, not everyone can do with a 120GB HDD. About 20 to 30GB is for a Windows Install, about 200GB is for over a dozen games which I play frequently, and maybe 10GB or so for word documents, photos, videos, and so on. That's approx. 240GB. That's excluding backups of important files. The only junk present is about 1GB of deleted data in the Recycle Bin. HDD can fill up quickly depending on uses and needs. If you can live off of 120GB, then good for you, but not all of us can.
i need tb of storage, and its not all from pirateing, much of it is games, and i dont uninstall the good ones ever because god knows the moment i do, i use up the space i got from uninstalling it, and get a craving to play it again.
point is, im running out of space and need a 2tb drive, but i need 2, one for backing up the first.
ssds are overpriced to the point that hdd, no matter how much they cost, will still look like the better solution.
I think the smaller percentage of the market (in terms of dollars spent) are not users who only use 120 gb of space.
I always like to think of market size in terms of dollars spent, not the number of consumers in a particular market segment.
SSD's are looking like a solid buy for those who don't use that much storage.
i hope customers respond with enough dissatisfaction so that hdd manufacturers and retailers don't set prices so high.