In recent years, DUE to the fierce competition of SSD hard drives, HDDD
hard disk shipments have declined, and Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba
three manufacturers have had a hard time.The spring of 2020 also came when
Toshiba announced a 30% increase in production and accelerated shipments of
18TB hard disks, benefiting from the data center market.
In the HDD hard disk market, Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba are still the three
companies, among which the first two are the largest ones, with 43% share of Q1
Seagate, 36% share of West digital and 21% share of Toshiba. Compared with the first
two, the HDD hard disk with advanced technology is less than half.
But Toshiba has now decided to ramp up production and is adding assembly and test
lines at its Plant in the Philippines, where it expects to increase HDDS capacity by 30%
in fy2021, starting April 1 next year, mainly in the data center market, where it hopes to
increase its share to 20%.
Toshiba is also a quarter or two behind on high-capacity HDDS. Western Digital and
Seagate have shipped 18TB drives and 20TB drives have been tested. Toshiba expects
18TB drives to be shipped by March 2021.
As for the 20TB drive, Toshiba's previous roadmap says it won't launch until fiscal year 2021,
using helium-filled technology and MAMR microwave-assisted magnetic recording along a
similar route to Western Digital.