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Disk Sales Slump, Pirates Not Storing Data (#869)
Posted: 1/6/2003; 3:13 PM by Terry Frazier
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The reported billions of pirate music downloads being made every month sure aren't helping the disk drive manufacturers. Shouldn't all that music be leading to ever more disk storage being sucked up by the devious pirates? If music sales fell 10 percent, but disk sales fell 21 percent, where is all that music going? Is piracy destroying disk sales, too? Gee, these numbers don't add up.

Disk storage sales carry on slumping. IDC survey

With "just say no" the dictum for storage buying, IDC has estimated that total worldwide spending on external disk storage systems slumped to $13.3bn last year, down 24% on 2001. That marks the second year in which disk sales have fallen heavily. In 2001, IDC now estimates that they fell by 21% - up on an earlier estimate of an 18% fall that year. [...] [The Register]
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