Digital Storage Projections For 2022, Part 1

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Digital Storage Projections For 2022, Part 1
Total HDD shipments through 3Q21 were about 198 million units. We project 4Q21 shipments will be between 60 million and 65 million units, resulting in 258 million to 263 million HDDs in total shipped in 2021. This will be close to the same number of HDD units shipped in 2020 (260 million units). In 2022 we believe that nearline HDD shipments growth will decline from 50% to 20% Y/Y growth and that the decline in PC and consumer HDDs will continue. As a result, 2022 HDD shipments are estimated at 234 million units, down about 10% from shipments in 2021.  

The figure below shows out updated projections for total HDD shipments out to 2026 including high, median and low estimates from 2021 to 2026.f