[Hardware]HDD market in 2020 has distributed the equivalent of more than 1 Zettabyte

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HDDs in 2020 have exceeded 1 Zettabyte of storage capacity adding all drives

 

The advent of SSD drives has caused mechanical hard drives to take a secondary role. Although HDDs are slower than SSDs, their large storage capacity makes them quite useful. We have seen in recent years how HDDs have been increasing in capacity. This last factor is one of the main ones that has allowed all HDD manufacturers to supply more than 1 Zettabyte (ZB) of capacity for the first time in history.

 

An SSD drive is characterized by offering high read and write speeds. The capacity of SSDs is still quite limited today compared to HDDs. Not counting the price differences, since a 1TB HDD is usually around 35-40 euros, while a 2.5 ″ SSD is usually around 100 euros.

 
To give us an idea, 1 ZB equals 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes (or 1 sextillion bytes). Also 1 ZB equals one million Petabytes, one billion Terabytes, or one trillion Gigabytes. We are talking about an astronomical storage capacity.

 

According to the firm Coughlin Associates, who has led the hard drive market in 2020 has been Toshiba and its 16TB drives. As it could not be otherwise, they are followed by Seagate in second position and Western Digital in third position.

 

Toshiba has led the market for drives for Nearline systems with growth of 35% in 2020. The company is the second consecutive year that it has positioned itself as a leader in this segment.