The laptop hard drive market will double

According to IDC, the world's 2.5-inch hard disk drive market (laptop) will double by 2010. According to Hitachi GST, the transition to technology erases magnetically. (PMR) is the reason why the hard disk industry has grown strongly.

In the next few years, IDC analysts expect significant growth in the 2.5-inch hard disk market. According to them, if by the end of 2006, sales of laptop hard disks reached 118 million, then by 2010, the index will be 224 million.

" Laptop users increasingly prefer to use high-capacity, high-speed, reliable and secure hard disks, " said John Ryding, IDC analyst, " IDC forecasts only. clear persuasive future is opening up to hard disk manufacturers '.

' The hard disk industry is 50 years old and 5 years away, we will sell more hard disks over the past 50 years' - Nikol Frapar, Hitachi GST's distribution channel manager for Europe - Central Asia. - " The growth rate of the 2.5-inch hard disk market - the highest-end market in the hard disk industry - is growing at an average of 22% per year while the entire hard disk market is growing an average of 14% / year.

This growth is ensured firstly by the growth of the laptop market and the consumer electronics market with handheld games, GPS devices . In addition, the demand for external hard drives increased sharply. is also a factor to ensure growth in the hard disk market . '

In Hitachi GST, the company currently controls 28% of the world's 2.5-inch hard disk market, it is said that the key factor for this market growth is the process of technology transformation to erase. Vertical magnetic (perpendicular) PMR. This technology allows for increased data recording density - critical for a 2.5-inch hard disk format used for laptops.

' The mastery of PMR technology has been the driving force behind the growth of the new generation hard disk supply,' - Frapar said . "From the beginning of production in May 2006, more than 1 million hard disks have followed the new technology. has been sold and by the end of 2006, there will be another 4 million new records. That is, by the end of the fourth quarter of 2006, the hard disk of PMR technology would account for 35% of the total 2.5 inch hard disk production. That was guaranteed by orders '.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies - Hitachi GST - founded in 2003 by a strategic merger of two hard disk drives from Hitachi and IBM. Revenues in the fiscal year 2005 ended on March 31, 2006 of the company at $ 81 billion.