Toshiba recently acknowledged that hard drives will live out their era of capacious and slow , and in applications where speed is important, they will eventually be replaced by solid-state drives. The more interesting it is to observe how the company strengthens its position in the segment of hard disks, as DigiTimes notes.
In the fourth quarter last year, Toshiba was able to increase its share in the hard disk market to 24%, while competitors represented by Seagate and Western Digital Corporation not only did not improve their performance, but also worsened. Perhaps we can only note that HDD-giants regularly increase only the aggregate capacity of the shipped hard drives, and their number in nominal terms is no longer the first quarter in a row.
While Toshiba receives more funds from the sale of hard drives, than from the implementation of solid-state drives. In the fourth quarter, revenues in these areas reached $ 25 billion and $ 17 billion, respectively. In addition to hard drives for server applications, Toshiba continues to supply magnetic disk drives for laptops and desktops.