Thank goodness. Cant wait to celebrate the day when the last ever device with a spinning platter boot drive and 720p LCD rolls off the assembly line. Should make it a GD nation holiday IMHO.
Percentages don't work that way. Assuming your HDD and SSD shipment change percentages are correct/consistent, what you said would only be true if SSD shipments were about 78% of HDD shipments prior to the increase/decrease in shipments.
The interesting comparison number is that SSD shipments total about 10 exabytes for the quarter. 31 million units, so mean size of about 320 GB (higher than I would have thought!)
HD shipments total about 150 exabytes for the quarter. 120 million units, so mean size of about 1.25 TB (that sounds about right, when you think of all the large backup drives and the small 500, or 750 GB drives in cheap machines).
that HD number seems rather low to me somehow. I mean, the vast majority of HDDs are sold to companies and data storage providers, and I would think they were all up on 3-4TB drives by now. But with the average so low it must mean a lot of them are still buying 1-2TB drives.
I interned for Intel NSG last year working on a SATA product, and I can definitely say their focus is more on the enterprise market; that probably explains the drop in their overall market share. It's all about margins, and Enterprise is where you can find those in SSDs (even though a good consumer Intel drive would be cool).
"The growth of SSDs has been consistent despite slowing sales of PCs " Well, SSDs are actually one of the main drivers of slowing PC sales... They have given new life to lots of relatively old but still good enough or even powerful PCs. All my laptops now have one or 2 SSDs. For instance, instead of buying a new ultrabook, precisely today I invested in a 1TB 850 EVO to replace the (now full) 256GB SSD in my 2012 14-inch ultrabook, which still rocks (i7-2640M with 8 GB RAM). This will allow me to extend its life for many years to come and to create a dual boot windows 7 + windows 10 (for when windows 7 is no longer supported). Having said that, HDD will still be with us for a very long time as a cheaper data storage solution (2nd drive or external drive), no need to pay a premium to store data....
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Gunbuster - Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - link
Thank goodness. Cant wait to celebrate the day when the last ever device with a spinning platter boot drive and 720p LCD rolls off the assembly line. Should make it a GD nation holiday IMHO.jasonelmore - Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - link
So HDD shipments down 45% and SSD shipments up 35%. There is still a 10% decline in storage in general.Yojimbo - Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - link
Percentages don't work that way. Assuming your HDD and SSD shipment change percentages are correct/consistent, what you said would only be true if SSD shipments were about 78% of HDD shipments prior to the increase/decrease in shipments.Shadowmaster625 - Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - link
I dont think you can compare the number directly like that. I wish the SSD and HDD data was all on one chart though.name99 - Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - link
The interesting comparison number is thatSSD shipments total about 10 exabytes for the quarter.
31 million units, so mean size of about 320 GB (higher than I would have thought!)
HD shipments total about 150 exabytes for the quarter.
120 million units, so mean size of about 1.25 TB (that sounds about right, when you think of all the large backup drives and the small 500, or 750 GB drives in cheap machines).
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10098/market-views-2...
CaedenV - Thursday, May 26, 2016 - link
that HD number seems rather low to me somehow. I mean, the vast majority of HDDs are sold to companies and data storage providers, and I would think they were all up on 3-4TB drives by now. But with the average so low it must mean a lot of them are still buying 1-2TB drives.Drumsticks - Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - link
Go, SSDs, go!I interned for Intel NSG last year working on a SATA product, and I can definitely say their focus is more on the enterprise market; that probably explains the drop in their overall market share. It's all about margins, and Enterprise is where you can find those in SSDs (even though a good consumer Intel drive would be cool).
digiguy - Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - link
"The growth of SSDs has been consistent despite slowing sales of PCs "Well, SSDs are actually one of the main drivers of slowing PC sales... They have given new life to lots of relatively old but still good enough or even powerful PCs. All my laptops now have one or 2 SSDs.
For instance, instead of buying a new ultrabook, precisely today I invested in a 1TB 850 EVO to replace the (now full) 256GB SSD in my 2012 14-inch ultrabook, which still rocks (i7-2640M with 8 GB RAM). This will allow me to extend its life for many years to come and to create a dual boot windows 7 + windows 10 (for when windows 7 is no longer supported).
Having said that, HDD will still be with us for a very long time as a cheaper data storage solution (2nd drive or external drive), no need to pay a premium to store data....
Phillsco - Thursday, May 26, 2016 - link
What about industrial-grade SSDs sold into commercial/industrial markets, what % of the market are they?zodiacfml - Friday, May 27, 2016 - link
LOL at Seagatecst917 - Thursday, June 2, 2016 - link
I saw the market share no. 3 is a name I never heard about. Who is Liteon. What business do they do?