Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Market Shares, 2024: A Year of Massive Growth Spurred by Rising Cloud and OEM Demand

This IDC study reviews the worldwide HDD vendor market shares for 2024."Worldwide HDD industry revenue rebounded sharply in 2024 due to strong demand from cloud service providers coupled with growth from enterprise OEMs as inventories normalized from the elevated levels seen during the latter part of COVID-19," according to Ed Burns, research director, Hard Disk Drive and Storage Technologies, IDC. "Revenue market shares did shift, with Western Digital again gaining share during the year, while Seagate and Toshiba lost share in 2024."