HDD Industry At-a-Glance

HDD 1956 In 1956 IBM unveiled RAMAC, INDUSTRY the first commercial disc storage system. It was the size of two refrigerators, stored five megabytes and cost almost $50,000 USD. Despite being bulky, slow and expensive, it marked the birth of a AT-A-GLANCE 2013 Throughout history the hard disk drive industry has changed and grown in many ways. Today, the major hard disk drive manufacturers have launched a new new segment within business transforming the world of computing and changing the shape of the whole IT industry. 1001001011 01110101 association as a voice in the 110100 promotion and use of rotating magnetic media hard drive technologies. 01101 BM 110 11011 010110 11100101 0101101101 101010100101 101011101011011 010101101101010 101011011110101011 9900 HGST TOSHIBA WD Seagate a Western Digital company a Western Digital company Revenues Growth Rate Revenues in 2012 for hard disk drive During the next six decades, a tremendously dynamic hard disk drive industry became synonymous with innovation and miniaturization manufacturers surpassed the GDP of Kenya (population 43 million). $37.5B delivering more storage capacity in smaller form factors. The HDD industry has been and remains a critical foundation in the digital age. Market Capitalization (WD, HGST, and Seagate combined as of July 29th) $29.3B Capital Equipment & R&D Spending The combined CapEx and R&D in 2012 was equal to the public expenditures of Senegal (population 12.9 million). $2.5B $1.8B R&D Capital Expenditures (Based on WD, HGST, and STX public financial reports) 578.5M hard disk drives produced in 2012 (more than 1.6 million per day). 19 hard disk drives every second. Almost five billion hard disk drives were shipped in the last ten years. 919191919 Areal Density HDD technology breakthroughs re-invigorated R&D spending, yielding huge productivity gains. New innovations led to significant design and capacity improvements, resulting in the ability to put more data into every square inch. 1560 Gb (2016) 780 Gb (2012) in? Areal density is expected Maximum areal density in 2012 Price per 24.8% Gigabyte annual savings The price per GB has plummeted on average nearly 25% every quarter over the last decade. Technology breakthroughs led to impressive efficiencies in the price per GB over time. In 1986, the price per GB was a whopping $71K US dollars. Less $71,000 (1986) than a decade later this price had plunged below $1K and today is around 10 cents per GB. $1,000 (1996) $0,1 (2013) "The cost for 128 kilobytes of memory will fall below $100 inthe near future." Creative Computing, December 1981 %24 (2013) 11 TB Unlike property prices, virtual space is becoming cheaper. In 2003 one square foot of Manhattan apartment could buy slightly less than 470GB of HDD storage. The same amount of space today is more than enough to stockpile all of your life (2003) memories worth almost ft2 470 GB 11TB of data storage. # GB of storage for one Big Mac: 42 Using the Big Mac index first invented by The Economist to measure the theory of purchasing power parity the numbers are astounding. 1 2003 I 2013 # Big Macs for Average hard disk: 27 End-user Benefits 15 •::::::: The hard disk drive industry serves an important role in the digital age. Today, hard drives can be found in a multitude of applications from your car to your PC. The overall trend continues to benefit end users by providing ample affordable storage solutions to meet the growing needs of consumers. STORAGE SOURCES: wdo.com, seagate.com, toshiba.com, tomcoughlin.com, mkomo.com, ns1758.ca, wikipedia.org, storagenewsletter.com, isuppli.com, boi.go.th, xbitlabs.com, tomshardware.com, ido.com, bigmacindex.org, amazon.com, zillow.com, worldbank.org PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION %24 %24 %24 %24