Hard Disk Drive

The growth of e-commerce and information demands on the Internet has created huge growth in storage demand. The rate of technology development, measured in data areal density growth ensures that disk drives deliver tremendous value to consumers of data storage products. Compound annual growth in the disk drive market has exceeded 10% annually for several years and it is predicted that this will continue. In 2010 over 600 million units were shipped worldwide. The market is segmented into Enterprise , Desktop, Mobile Computing and Consumer Electronics.