More space to the cloud, less and less external hard drives for sale

The market for personal storage solutions recorded during 2015 a drop in sales was -9.2% in terms of number of products according to figures reported by IDC. External hard drives, USB interface, and NAS storage solutions for small and medium size have not collected during 2015 the success of the previous year the market while continuing to be attractive solutions for the general public: we are talking about an industry that has saw sales of about 68.5 million units during 2015.

Most devices sold falls into the category of external hard drives and the type of personal storage solutions, with a maximum of 2 bays for hard drives. This type of product accounts for approximately 99% of the total market, with the remainder composed of NAS with hard drive bay for a minimum of 3 to a maximum of 12.

A contraction in the sales of these devices is linked both to the spread of the cloud solutions is the availability of storage products from the increasingly high capacity. Thinking of the 3-inch devices and 1.2 solutions with capacities between 3:05 Terabytes tend to be preferred to models 1 and 2 Terabytes. For Proposals 2.5-inch reference cuts are always those of 500 Gbytes and 1 Terabyte but the horizon overlook models 2 and 4 Terabytes of which seem to be favorite skills.

Western Digital, Seagate and Toshiba hold the top three positions in the market, with shares of around 32%, 26% and 17%. In fourth place are Buffalo, able to raise just over 3% of the vote, while the remaining producers taken together account for just under 22% of the total. It 'clear that this is a market where the hard drive manufacturers are the ones able to collect user preferences.