HDD Industry Enjoys Best Performance despite Volume Fluctuation 
Storage Space Market Brief - Issue 12 - 2012 
Despite a relatively lower volume of hard disk drives (HDDs) produced in Q1 2012 resulting from last year’s flooding in Thailand (approximately 145 million), the HDD industry experienced its best performance in terms of revenue and gross margin. Q1 2012 HDD revenue was approximately $9.6 billion—an industry record for the quarter. Seagate and Western Digital reported 37% and 32% in gross margin (GM) respectively in Q1 2012, also a record for each company...
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