Toshiba Posts Higher Y/Y HDD Shipment and Exabytes in 2021

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced HDD shipment unit and exabyte grew 4% and 61%, respectively in 2022.

It shipped 54.68 million units equaling 187.24EB for the year. Nearline, mission critical, desktop/CE segments posted higher unit and exabyte results for the year with nearline HDDs leading all applications with units surging 73% and exabytes skyrocketing 114%. Desktop/CE HDD units grew 10% resulting in exabyte growth of 23% while mission critical HDD units rose 9% with exabytes increasing 22%. In addition to this annual growth numbers, Toshiba set a new shipment record for nearline HDDs in 4CQ21, as units grew to 2.90 million units totaling 33.93EB for the quarter.

Y/Y growth

The company led the industry in Y/Y growth in 8 categories for the year.

“Toshiba’s leading Y/Y growth percentages in so many categories are the result of the company’s execution under challenging market conditions. Toshiba was able to address the shifting demand landscape during the course of the year to deliver competitive products to the market,” said John Chen, VP, Trendfocus, Inc. “As some of the ongoing pandemic-related constraints begin to ease, Toshiba has positive momentum to post more milestones in 2022.”

Kyle Yamamoto, VP of TAEC’s HDD business unit, said: “Toshiba has worked hard to evolve our products and technology to meet our customers’ growing exabyte demand, and our new technologies such as FC-MAMR (Flux-Controlled – Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording) and MAS-MAMR (Microwave Assisted Switching – Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording) are excellent examples of the effort that will propel the next gen of products forward.“

The firm offers a portfolio of HDD products that address the storage needs of enterprise, datacenter, surveillance, and client markets. It solves customer challenges with HDD models focusing on 4 primary market segments. The AL Series focuses on the enterprise performance segment; the MG Series is aimed at enterprise capacity and data center; the MQ Series covers the spectrum of use cases that require mobile client HDDs; and the DT Series addresses the surveillance and traditional desktop client use cases.