78 Million HDDs Shipped Worldwide in 2Q19, as in 1Q19

In its SDAS: HDD Information Service, Preliminary CQ1 ’19 Quarterly Update, published on July 9, 2019, analyst company Trendfocus, Inc. wrote:

PRELIMINARY CQ2 ’19 Results:
HDD Shipments Up Marginally to Near 78 Million Units
Nearline Units and Exabytes Continue to Rise

· 3.5″ Desktop/CE HDDs: Total desktop/CE HDD shipments (including 3.5″ external HDDs) remained steady in CQ2 at around 24.8 million units shipped, reflecting stable desktop and CE demand.
· 2.5″ Mobile/CE HDDs: Seasonally weaker 2.5″ external HDD demand combined with slightly lower notebook PC HDD demand to cut total 2.5″ mobile/CE HDD shipments by roughly over a half-million units to around 36.6 million HDDs.
· 3.5″/2.5″ Enterprise HDDs: Western Digital’s continued exit from the performance enterprise market combined with secularly weaker enterprise server/storage demand to cut performance enterprise HDD shipments by roughly 0.4 million units Q/Q to around 4.1 million HDDs. A rebound in demand for nearline HDDs by both cloud and OEM customers lifted sequential nearline shipments by nearly 15% to around 12.6 million units shipped, with total capacity shipped topping 100EB.

2Q19 preliminary WW HDD shipments

Vendor	HDDs in million	Q/Q growth	Y/Y growth	Market share
Seagate	31.35 – 31.50	0.2% / 0.7%	-15.1% / -14/7%	40.3% – 40.3%
Toshiba	19.40 – 19.60	5.1% / 6.2%	-4.9% / -4.0%	25.0% – 25.1%
WDC	27.00 – 27.10	-3.1% / -2.7%	-30.8% / -30.6%	34.7% – 34.7%
TOTAL	77.75 – 78.20	0.2% / 0.8%	-19.3% / -18.9%	100% – 100%

Final shipments to be published in Trendfocus’s CQ2’19 Quarterly Update and Executive Summary may change measurably.