According to a new financial presentation from Nidec, a Japanese motor manufacturer who is responsible for around 85% of all HDD spindle motors, the company believes that shipments of hard drives for PCs will drop significantly this year. Citing numerous ongoing trends, the motor maker is preparing for HDD motor sales to drop by around 50% year-over-year for 2019. Meanwhile the company also expects sales of other types of HDDs to slow, but not as drastically. In fact, unit shipments of hard drives for datacenters are projected to increase a bit.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14298...-halve-in-2019
Shipments of PC Hard Drives Predicted to Drop By Nearly 50% in 2019
5th May 2019, 05:11
Shipments of PC Hard Drives Predicted to Drop By Nearly 50% in 2019 
