Toshiba only day released announced 2021 hard drive shipments and sales report, according to the report 2021 Toshiba HDD shipments and Exabyte shipments increased by 4% and 61% respectively. The company shipped 54.68 million full-year shipments, equivalent to 187.24 Exabytes.
Toshiba’s Nearline, Mission Critical, and Desktop/CE divisions are reported to have posted higher unit and Exabyte results, with Nearline HDDs improving tremendously with a 73 percent increase in shipments and Exabyte increasing 114 percent.
Toshiba shipped a record number of Nearline HDDs in the fourth quarter of 2021, with shipments increasing to 2.9 million in the quarter, up more than 94 percent year-over-year.