Western Digital shipped 21.2 million notebook drives in 2FQ15, a figure declining regularly to reach only 9.6 million in 4FQ18. For the same periods, enterprise devices were down from 8.0 million to 6.6 million and global units sold diminish from 61 million to 34 million.
For Trendfocus, WW mobile HDD units were down from 35 million in 3CQ18 to 31 million in 3CQ19. Performance enterprise devices decreased from 5.3 million in 3CQ18 to 4.7 million in 3CQ19. The market of 3.5-inch external drives will also diminish.
At the end, in the shrinking HDD market, 3.5-inch high-capacity HDDs will be tomorrow the only viable sector for rotating magnetic drives.