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Hard Drives: slow sales after 2005

According to research company iSuppli, 2005 turned out to be particularly successful for hard drive manufacturers, as we have already reported. Briefly recall – compared with 2004 in 2005, sales increased by 23%, reaching a record 376 million units, against 305 million units a year earlier. ISuppli expects the same in 2006, slowing the annual growth of this market to 14.4% over last year’s volume, or 428.4 million units. While manufacturers are expected this year to conserve a significant demand, in fact, they began to face problems of overproduction, caused, in particular, pressure from the flash memory is increasingly used in portable drives instead of hard drives. As the

iSuppli, the market growth is also negatively impact the recent association of producers, I mean the acquisition of Maxtor Seagate for $ 1.9 billion, and the agreement between Fujitsu and Cornice on joint production of hard disk drives for consumer electronics. By the end of 2005, the three leaders of the market vendors hard drive is as follows: in the first place – to consolidate its position Seagate, 28,7% (compared to 27% a year earlier), followed by Western Digital, 17,7% and Hitachi GST – 15,5%.

Thematic material in articles:

– External Hard Drive Maxtor OneTouch III;
– Seagate: best sellers on the tests. Source

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