News HDD Shipments Set All-Time Capacity Record

[Admin]

Shipped HDD capacity hits 351.4EB in Q2 2021.

HDD Shipments Set All-Time Capacity Record : Read more

 

[Colif]

Drive sizes are getting bigger, mining crazer using them also helped... but surely this record will always grow as drives are getting bigger

 

[Blairian]

Drive sizes are getting bigger, mining crazer using them also helped... but surely this record will always grow as drives are getting bigger

Total Capacity = Capacity per drive x #drives. Capacity per drive is going up, but number of drives shipped is slipping.

 

[Blairian]

Shipped HDD capacity hits 351.4EB in Q2 2021.

HDD Shipments Set All-Time Capacity Record : Read more

Sales over beers will tell you that Data is growing at 2X per year.
Marketing over scotch will scribble Data is growing at 2X every two years.

Your data seems to indicate a growth of 351% over 10 years, or less than doubling every 5 years, or 14% per year .. .. ...