Deliver Your News to the World

Long-Term Outlook for Worldwide R-HDD Market Finds Shipment and Revenue Growth of More Than 50%, According to IDC


WEBWIRE

FRAMINGHAM, MA .- IDC released the industry’s first market size and forecast for the worldwide removable hard disk drive (R-HDD) market, revealing that the opportunity looks bright for R-HDD adoption. Worldwide shipments will increase at a 65% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), totaling over 3 million R-HDD solutions and additional disk cartridges in 2012. Meanwhile, total worldwide R-HDD revenue will grow equally as strong with a 52% CAGR.


“In the past, R-HDDs have been largely proprietary solutions with no ability to interchange data,” said John Rydning, research manager for Hard Disk Drives and Components at IDC. “However, the current R-HDD solutions are increasingly based on standardized products that allow for data sharing and interchange.”

There has been significant OEM interest in positioning R-HDDs alongside low-end tape drives, as well as an alternative to tape. IDC believes that in the year ahead, the majority of the R-HDD solutions will be used for direct-attached server and host-based backup and recovery functions, impacting the low-end tape drives, such as DDS/DAT, negatively.

“While the new group of R-HDD solutions are being positioned as tape replacement products, the challenge for large, tape-centric OEMs will be transitioning customers to R-HDDs while managing their large, profitable tape portfolios,” added Robert Amatruda, research director for Tape and Removable Storage at IDC.

IDC’s study, Worldwide 2007-2012 Removable Hard Disk Drive Forecast and Analysis: The Quest for a Viable Tape Replacement (Doc #210169) presents forecasts by capacity for the R-HDD solution market (including one docking station with one disk cartridge) and for the additional disk cartridge component separately. Additionally, the study offers an historical perspective of the R-HDD market and guidance to R-HDD suppliers and personal storage device providers.



WebWireID58430





This news content was configured by WebWire editorial staff. Linking is permitted.

News Release Distribution and Press Release Distribution Services Provided by WebWire.