IDC's Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Taxonomy, 2026

This IDC study defines and provides a framework for analyzing the worldwide hard disk drive market."After another year of strong growth in the enterprise HDD market, the HDD industry remains in the midst of a supply constrained environment with strong demand from enterprise and cloud hyperscalers outstripping industry supply capacity," according to Ed Burns, research director on HDD and storage technologies, IDC. Burns adds, "This will likely continue until higher-capacity drives, such as 40TB and 50TB HDDs, begin shipping in the next couple of years."