Although sales in 2009 have reduced the level of history and the SSD drive was "onslaught" but expected, some hard drives launched in 2014 will increase to reach 300.000PB. This study, called Situation Forecast Worldwide Hard Disk Drive IDC period 2010-2014, estimated that the number of hard drives purchased for use in enterprise applications will increase more than 12 million units , from 40.5 million units to 52.6 million units (2014). In addition, the total capacity of the hard drive will be launched in the next two years will be more than the amount that the industry was launched in the past 20 years.

IDC said the increasing interest of the company's distribution model to the new store will place greater demand on the Internet data center. According to IDC, the price per GB of hard drive storage will continue to reduce the rate of about 25% - 30% per year, and industry's transition from hard drive 3.5 "to 2.5" will be finished into 2012.

In four years, there will be a change from the high cost of hard drives to SATA drives lower costs, but higher capacity. Enterprises will also increase the purchase of solid state disk for applications that require throughput input / output high. Until 2014, income from hard drives in the enterprise market will only grow at 1.7% per year.