Seagate biggest hard drive vendor in cosmos

IN A PARALLEL universe which might be just 15 nanometres away, or nearer, the earthlings might have invented hard drives and there might be a company with a bigger market share than Seagate.

But in this particular neck of the cosmic woods, market research firm iSuppli reckons Seagate is number one in HDD ships and in perpendicular sales.

The firm said Seagate shipped 39.1 million HDDs in the third calendar quarter, up from 33.6 million in Q2. That gives it a 34.3 per cent share of the market.

Further, said iSuppli, its data shows that Seagate shipped 3.9 million perpendicular hard drives. Isuppli figures below are for units in thousands. µ

Rank	Supplier	Q3 ship	Q3 share	Q2 ship	Q2 share
1	Seagate	39,140	34.3%	33,620	34.1%
2	WDC	22,700	19.9%	19,200	19.5%
3	Hitachi	19,950	17.5%	14,930	15.1%
4	Samsung	11,833	10.4%	10,338	10.5%
5	Toshiba	11,340	9.9%	8,380	8.5%
6	Fujitsu	7,353	6.4%	6,666	6.8%
7	Excelstor	1,600	1.4%	1,500	1.5%
8	Cornice	-	0.2%	250	0.3%
9	Maxtor	-	0.0%	3,770	3.8%
10	GSM	-	0.0%	-	0.0%
	Other	-	0.0%	-	0.0%
	Total	114,141	100%	98,654	100%
	Seq growth	15.7%		-3.0%
	Annual	19.6%		10%