PART 01: Executive summary • Highlights PART 02: Scope of the report • Market overview • Top-vendor offerings PART 03: Market research methodology • Research methodology • Economic indicators PART 04: Introduction • Key market highlights PART 05: Comparison of HDDs and SSDs • History of HDDs and SSDs • Advantages and disadvantages of HDDs and SSDs PART 06: Comparison of cloud and external hard disks • 0 to 20 GB • 20 to 100 GB • 100 to 500 GB • 500 GB to 1 TB • 1 TB+ PART 07: Hybrid drive • NAND flash • 3D NAND flash • Hybrid drive PART 08: Industry overview • Printers • External hard disks • Pointing devices • PC gaming peripherals • Combos and keyboards • Headsets • Webcams PART 09: Market landscape • Market size and forecast • Five forces model PART 10: Geographical segmentation • Global external hard disk market by geography 2015-2020 • APAC • Americas • EMEA PART 11: Buying criteria PART 12: Market drivers • Multiple advantages of external hard disks • Low purchase cost • Increased need for storage PART 13: Market challenges • Emergence of cloud-storage services • Growing popularity of external SSDs • Risk of theft and damage PART 14: Impact of drivers and challenges PART 15: Market trends • Increasing popularity of wireless external hard disks • Innovation of high-storage portable external hard disks • Increasing popularity of slim external hard disks PART 16: Vendor landscape • Competitive scenario • Key vendors • Other prominent vendors PART 17: Summary of key figures PART 18: Appendix • List of abbreviations PART 19: Explore Technavio List of Exhibits Exhibit 01: Standard currency conversion rates Exhibit 02: Product offerings Exhibit 03: Global HDD market by end-user 2015 (% share) Exhibit 04: Market overview Exhibit 05: ASPs of SSDs 2013-2015 ($ per GB) Exhibit 06: Comparison of SSDs and HDDs Exhibit 07: Comparison of cloud and external hard disk for different space requirements Exhibit 08: Process node trend of technology transformation vendors Exhibit 09: Circuitry of an electronic device Exhibit 10: Types of NAND flash memory Exhibit 11: ASP of NAND Memory 2003-2015 Exhibit 12: Key developments Exhibit 13: Global PC peripherals market by product 2015-2020 Exhibit 14: Percentage contribution of each PC gaming peripheral 2015 Exhibit 15: Global external hard disk market 2015-2020 ($ billions) Exhibit 16: Global external hard disk market 2015-2020 (units in millions) Exhibit 17: Five forces model Exhibit 18: Global external hard disk market by geography 2015-2020 Exhibit 19: Global external hard disk market by geography 2015-2020 ($ billions) Exhibit 20: External hard disk market in APAC 2015-2020 ($ billions) Exhibit 21: External hard disk market in Americas 2015-2020 ($ billions) Exhibit 22: External hard disk market in EMEA 2015-2020 ($ billions) Exhibit 23: Impact of drivers Exhibit 24: Impact of drivers and challenges Exhibit 25: Impact of trends Exhibit 26: Western Digital business segmentation 2015 Exhibit 27: Seagate Technology business segmentation 2015 Exhibit 28: Toshiba business segmentation 2015 Exhibit 29: Other prominent vendors Exhibit 30: Summary of key figures

Western Digital, Seagate Technology, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Samsung Electronics.