14 DAY TRIAL // The hard disk drive market is not in dire straits yet, but it's not far from it either. That much is clear from how the total available HDD market decreased by 2-3% in the second quarter of 2013.
Normally, in Q2 of any year, sales go up by 3-7%.
This time around, however, they declined for all three HDD making companies: Toshiba, Seagate and Western Digital.
The total decline, for the industry, was of 2-3%, leaving the unit level at 132-133 million.
Western Digital came out a bit ahead of its rivals because its decline was the smallest.
In fact, WD has been outselling Seagate in essentially all HDD segments, like client hard drives, non-compute hard drives (external units or those used in media players and such).
The enterprise market is the only area where Seagate has an advantage, having shipped 8.2 million versus WD's 7.897 million in 2Q13.