Hard drives, once considered one of the basic components of computers, today are far from their former popularity. This is also reflected in the number of hard drives sold. Users to SSDs or if we turn to other flash solutions, the effect of this situation seems to increase.

According to Trendfocus reports, hard drive sales fell to 45 million units in the second quarter of this year. Looking at it year-on-year, this equates to a 33 percent decline. in 2010 On the other hand, annual hard drive shipments were 650 million and average quarterly shipments were 162 million.

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Demand for enterprise manufacturing hard drives this quarter 2.5 million units fell. The main reason for this situation is shown as the fact that the manufacturers are using the products they already have. Disruptions in the production of other parts also negatively impact the hard drive market.

On the consumer side, the situation is even more complicated. 3.5 inch Desktop hard drive shipments fell more than 30 percent to about 13 million units. Trendfocus also said that security, PC and retail demand has declined significantly.

The biggest drop is 2.5 inch hard drives was in the field. While the drop in this area has reached 40 percent, the number of shipments has fallen to 11 million. The explanation for this situation is quite simple, almost all laptop manufacturers nowadays prefer flash-based storage units.

Mined using free disk space in the past year chia The decline in hard drive demand was prevented, albeit slightly, thanks to the cryptocurrency. In the absence of that kind of support this year, the decline in hard drive sales has been even more pronounced.