In their Q3 2012 quarterly earnings call, Western Digital drive shipments in the quarter that ended in March were 44.2 million units, compared to 28.5 million in the prior quarter, which shows major recovery from the Thailand floods as well as immediate benefit from the Hitachi acquisition. WD also indicated for the first time in a long time that they believe there’s sufficient capacity to meet hard drive demand for the current quarter.
In their Q3 2012 quarterly earnings call, Western Digital drive shipments in the quarter that ended in March were 44.2 million units, compared to 28.5 million in the prior quarter, which shows major recovery from the Thailand floods as well as immediate benefit from the Hitachi acquisition. WD also indicated for the first time in a long time that they believe there’s sufficient capacity to meet hard drive demand for the current quarter.
Quarter highlights included the shipment of; the first 2TB 2.5" portable hard drives (2TB My Passport Studio, 2TB My Passport), the 1TB VelociRaptor, Hitachi’s 7K4000 Ultrastar 4TB SATA enterprise hard drive and Hitachi’s 25nm SLC enterprise SSD.
Drive Sales Breakdown
For the quarter, here’s the breakdown of WD’s drive shipments:
- 18,067,000 netbook/notebook drives
- 15,975,000 desktop drives
- 3,643,000 consumer electronics drives
- 2,926,000 branded
- 3,616,000 enterprise drives
