Strong Surge in Mobile Class Fuels Growth in the 3Q08 EMEA Hard Disk Drive Market, Says IDC
13 Nov 2008
LONDON, November 13, 2008
— According to data released by IDC EMEA, the EMEA market for hard disk
drives (HDD) grew 6.4% to 33.6 million units in the third quarter of
2008, driven by the mobile and enterprise segments. Desktop sales were
flat in 3Q08 compared with 3Q07.
Drive Class
In
the desktop-class drive area, the largest segment of the HDD market,
shipments contracted 0.4% to 23.3 million. Seagate remained the largest
vendor at 48% of units shipped, growing at 10% year on year.
Mobile-class
drives (aimed at small form factors such as notebooks and consumer
devices) continued to drive market growth at over 30% year on year to
7.9 million units. Western Digital remained the largest vendor, growing
79% on the same quarter of the previous year with more than 3 million
units.
Enterprise-class drives (premium drives destined for
high-end disk arrays) grew 12% year on year to 2.5 million units. The
largest vendor in enterprise was Seagate with 1.5 million units,
growing 5% year on year.
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