techPowerUp!: (PR) Western Digital Shakes off Thai Flood Impact, Retakes Hard Drive Market Lead in Q2

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(PR) Western Digital Shakes off Thai Flood Impact, Retakes Hard Drive Market Lead in Q2 Aug 30th 2012, 12:50 Six months after losing the top spot in the global hard disk drive (HDD) segment due to the Thai flooding disaster, Western Digital Corp. in the second quarter recovered its market lead from chief rival Seagate Technology, according to an IHS iSuppli Storage Space Market Brief from information and analytics provider IHS. Western Digital produced approximately 71.0 million HDD units in the second quarter, including production from Hitachi GST, a company acquired by Western Digital earlier in the year. Revenue for Western Digital amounted to $4.8 billion-a company record. In comparison, Seagate shipped 65.9 million HDD units during the same period, with revenue reaching $4.5 billion-also a record in Seagate's books.

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