IDC's Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Taxonomy, 2025

This IDC study defines and provides a framework for analyzing the worldwide hard disk drive market."After a year of explosive growth in the enterprise HDD market, we expect another solid year of growth in 2025 driven by ongoing cloud datacenter buildouts due to AI and modernization trends as well as modest growth from the OEM server and storage segments," according to Ed Burns, research director, Hard Disk Drive and Storage Technologies at IDC.

IDC's Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Taxonomy

Hard Disk Drive Taxonomy Changes for 2025

Taxonomy Overview

• Hard Disk Drives
• Enterprise
• Cloud/Noncloud
  • Client
    • Consumer Electronics
    • Video Surveillance
• Industrial and Commercial
  • HDD Product Segments

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