The once mighty Maxtor is now completely subsumed by Seagate, while Big Blue (IBM) drives are now purely Hitachi, having once been shoulder-to-shoulder buddies. There are now just five companies responsible for the vast bulk of hard drives coming into the world:Įvery one of them a great and established name, and each of them in the past responsible for gobbling up smaller competitors. The latest figures from iSuppli reflect this dichotomy – the handful of world-class hard disk drive manufacturers have never been bigger or spread their reach more widely. The number of manufacturers that can afford to stay in the game has shrunk and they margins they operate on are also considerably thinner even while they continue to expand their empires both in traditional disk drives for computers and hard drives as portable storage for music players and external short-term archival devices. Ever wonder which hard drive manufacturer is top dog? Over the last couple of decades the hard disk drive industry has both grown and shrunk simultaneously.
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