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Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Market Size & Future Growth, 2033

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In June 2025, Seagate launched its Mozaic 3+ 32 TB HAMR-based hard drive platform designed for hyperscale cloud environments, enhancing areal density, improving power efficiency per terabyte, and supporting large-scale AI, analytics, and archival data center workloads. In March 2024, Western Digital introduced the Ultrastar DC HS760 26 TB HDD tailored for AI-driven and enterprise data center applications, featuring advanced recording technology, higher reliability ratings, and optimized performance for large-scale cloud and high-capacity storage deployments. Asia Pacific leads the HDD market with 39% share in 2025, driven by strong manufacturing capabilities and rapid data center expansion across key economies. ... HAMR-enabled ultra-high-capacity HDDs present a significant opportunity, supporting next-generation AI workloads and zettabyte-scale data storage expansion. ... The HDD market’s leading players are Seagate Technology Holdings PLC, Toshiba Corporation, Western Digital Corporation, Sony Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Development LP. Leading Application Category: The enterprise segment dominates with 58% share in 2025, supported by extensive deployment across hyperscale data centers, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale archival systems. The 3.5-inch segment leads the HDD market, accounting for approximately 66% of total share in 2025. Its dominance is driven by widespread deployment in rack-optimized data centers, where higher capacity per drive and superior storage density are critical.

Western Digital Begins Volume Shipments of 24TB CMR HDDS; Industry ...

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Western Digital is now shipping its new 10-disk 24TB1 CMR HDD family for hyperscale, cloud and enterprise data center customers. Sampling since August, the new 28TB SMR HDD is also ramping, adding to the company’s SMR leadership position and momentum as its 26TB SMR HDD exabyte shipments reached nearly half of its data center exabytes shipped in the first quarter fiscal year 2024. The Ultrastar DC HC680 and HC580 HDDs are currently being qualified by select hyperscalers, CSPs and OEM customers, and are now available for large enterprise customers looking for the highest capacity with lower power per terabyte for designing more efficient storage systems and data centers. Ultrastar Data60 and Data102 Hybrid Storage Platforms The new Ultrastar drives are also being qualified and integrated into the company’s Ultrastar Data60 and Data102 JBOD hybrid storage platforms, which are key building blocks for designing next-generation disaggregated storage and software-defined storage (SDS) infrastructure. Each storage platform comes with unique IsoVibe™ and ArcticFlow™ technologies for improved performance and reliability. Ultrastar Data60 and Data102 platforms with the new HDDs will be available beginning next month.

Seagate and Western Digital: HDD Price Increases Signal a Structural ...

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Data for this article came from my report entitled The Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and Solid State Drive (SSD) Industries: Market Analysis And Processing Trends available from my website at www.theinformationnet.com · According to Chart 1, the long-term trajectory of HDD exabyte shipments continues to move upward, driven by large-scale cloud and AI infrastructure deployments. The chart presents quarterly exabyte shipments for Western Digital (WDC), Seagate (STX), and Toshiba through Q3 2025, with trendlines that illustrate persistent growth over multiple years. According to DigiTimes, contract negotiations for the fourth quarter of 2025 concluded with traditional Hard Disk Drive (HDD) prices settling roughly 4 percent higher quarter over quarter, marking the largest increase seen in the past eight quarters. Strength has been driven by robust uptake of 3.5-inch desktop drives in China alongside sustained procurement of high-capacity nearline drives by U.S.-based hyperscalers and cloud service providers. Together, these trends indicate that HDDs are no longer merely a residual technology, but a critical capacity layer in an AI-driven data infrastructure. What’s in this article

C2Q 2025 HDD Industry Growth Projected For 2025

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IEEE President in 2024 ... Digital Storage Technology Newsletter. Total HDD shipments in C2Q 2025 were up about 6.0% compared with C1Q 2025. Total exabytes shipped in C1Q 2025 were up about 12.6% from C1Q 2025. HDD revenues (estimated at $6.2B) were up about 17.4% from the prior quarter. Nearline HDD shipments were up 13% from the prior quarter. Western Digital shipped 12.9 million units and an estimated 190 Exabytes of storage capacity. The figure below shows calendar 2025 HDD market share (by total units). Toshiba total 2024 market share was about 17% (down 1% from C1 2025) with Seagate at 41% (up 1% from the prior quarter) and Western Digital at 42%. Both Seagate and Western Digital reported some potential impact on the June quarter from the trade war in their quarterly reports, but generally felt that nearline storage demand supported near term growth in storage and revenue. Western Digital started reporting on the HDD EB shipments again rather than the % change from the prior quarter. We have also adjusted out C1 2025 numbers to reflect this change.

Western Digital Is Sold Out of Hard Drives for All of 2026 — ...

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WD Red Plus, WD Red Pro, and WD Gold drives for the consumer and prosumer NAS market are less critically affected — production for these lines is separate from the Ultrastar enterprise volume — though availability has tightened and prices have increased 15-20% from 2024 levels. For 2024 — the most recent complete year — the leading brands posted these AFR figures: HGST (older Ultrastar generations): consistently the lowest failure rates, typically 0.4-0.7% AFR across capacities. Can I use Seagate Exos drives instead of WD Ultrastar in my server?+ Are MDD refurbished drives a reliable alternative to new WD drives?+ How can I monitor WD drive availability and pricing?+ DriveVault. Why Hard Drive and SSD Prices Are Exploding in 2026. DriveVault.io. April 7, 2026. Tom's Hardware. Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026. Tom's Hardware. 2026. Backblaze. Hard Drive Stats for 2024. That balance broke in 2025. The simultaneous requirement for vast quantities of nearline HDD storage (to hold AI training datasets) and high-density NVMe (for active inference infrastructure) created demand that neither Seagate, WD, nor Toshiba had planned for at this scale. WD's hyperscale allocation — which represents the largest share of Ultrastar DC production — was committed early.

Hard Disk Drive Market Trends, Growth & Segmentation - 2031

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Near-line enterprise deployments expand as cloud providers allocate roughly 15–20% of their record USD 315 billion 2025 capital budgets to storage infrastructure, while energy-per-terabyte metrics sustain demand in power-constrained data-center markets[1]Investor Relations Team, “FY 2024 10-K,” Western Digital Corporation, wdc.com . Seagate, Western Digital, and Toshiba collectively accounted for more than 95% of global shipments in 2025. Note: Market size and forecast figures in this report are generated using Mordor Intelligence’s proprietary estimation framework, updated with the latest available data and insights as of 2026. ... Hyperscale data-center count reached 1,136 at year-end 2024 and is projected to triple by 2030 as AI accelerators reshape computing footprints. Storage represents roughly one-fifth of the 2025 capex plans of major cloud operators, channeling billions into very-large-capacity racks that favor the Hard Disk Drive market for cold-tier deployments. Exabyte shipments of HDDs are forecast by Western Digital to grow at 23% between 2024 and 2028, driven primarily by HAMR-enabled density gains. Seagate’s USD 119 million acquisition of Intevac in March 2025 accelerates head-laser advances, enabling exabyte deployments already inside tier-one cloud data centers. Western Digital’s December 2024 confirmation of commercial HAMR shipment in 2025 illustrates industry alignment.