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The Digital Storage Technology Newsletter is a Quarterly Publication of Coughlin Associates. This newsletter, formerly called the Rigid Disk Heads and Media Newsletter (and originally published by Peripheral Research, Inc.) started in 1985.
- Membership of Entertainment Storage Alliance (www.entertainmentstorage.org)
- Report discounts
Here are some top items impacting digital storage in the fourth quarter of 2016 (and the first month of Q1 2017):
- Total HDD shipments in CQ3 2016 were down 1.7% compared with CQ3 2016 (M 111.5 M units in Q4 2016 versus 113.5 M units in Q3 2016). This is after a 15.2% increase for CQ3 2016 from CQ2 2016, 2.1% decline for CQ2 2016 from CQ1 2016, 12.3% decline for CQ1 2016 from CQ4 2015 and a 3.6% decline for CQ4 2015 from CQ3 2015.
- Notebook HDD shipments declined by 19.9% while desktop HDD shipments declined 18.6% Q2Q.
- CE HDD shipments were up 20.8% while branded shipments were down 7.9% Q2Q.
- High performance enterprise HDDs were down 11.3% while near line enterprise HDDs were up 1.5% Q2Q.
- 3.5-inch HDDs declined by 11.0% Q2Q. 2.5-inch HDDs increased by about 7.9% Q2Q.
- There was a 0.87% increase in ASPs in CQ4 2016 compared to CQ3 2016. There was a 1.92% increase in ASPs in CQ3 compared to CQ2 2016, an 8.82% increase in ASPs in CQ2 compared to CQ1 2016, a 0.85% decline in ASPs in CQ1 2016 compared to CQ4 2015 and a 1.7% increase in CQ4 compared to CQ3 2015. This quarter continued the increase in ASPs we saw in the prior two quarters.
- The 2016 Digital Storage in Media and Entertainment Report is available. See sales form at the end of the newsletter.
- The 2016 How Many IOPS Do You Really Need Report, co-authored with Objective Analysis is now available—see sales form at the end of this newsletter.
- The 2015 Emerging Non-Volatile Memory and Storage Technology and Manufacturing Report is available from Coughlin Associates—see sales form at end of the newsletter.
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