History (1990): Dataquest Forecasts HDDs to Become Ahead of Storage Peripherals in Future

According to Dataquest, HDDs are promised to a fine future and finally won’t be threatened by new technologies like optical disks and high-capacity floppy disks.

In value, the share of HDDs in the entire storage market will only drop 3% from 1989 to 1993, from 76.6 to 73.7%.

Of course, in number of units, FDDs will still be ahead but, in 1993, Dataquest estimates that 40 million FDDs will be sold, just about as then HDDs, 35 million.

A remarkable growth is expected in optical disk drives while sales of tape units remain steady.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue ≠26, published on March 1990.