Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: In-Stat
Published: June 2007
Product Code: R97-2853Description The Solid-State Drive, or SSD, has been receiving a lot of attention recently. Some say this technology will kill off the market for conventional hard disk drives, or HDDs. This report looks into all the arguments surrounding SSDs and comes to the conclusion that the market will grow at a phenomenal rate even if it is met with moderate acceptance:
1. By 2011, 23.8 million SSDs will ship into the PC market.
2. This represents a 274% CAGR from 2007’s market of approximately 100,000 units.
3. The hybrid hard drive or HHD will limit the number of SSDs used in PCs.
4. The SSD market has over 20 vendors, some of whom are selling volumes to the military, while the newer ones are aimed at the PC.
5. Prospective vendors can refer to this report to find reasons to enter or avoid this market. Prospective users of SSDs can determine which vendors offer promise, and which are likely to depart the market.
Table of Contents - Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Are SSDs New? Well, Maybe Not
- The Role of Pricing in the SSD Debate
- Overview of the Technologies
- HDD—The Stalwart Defender
- SSD—The Notorious Upstart
- Disk Caches—A Prospective Spoiler
- Comparing the Technologies
- SSD Technology
- SSDs’ Strengths
- Durability
- Low Power
- Speed
- Special Functions
- Price Declines
- Low Noise
- Low Weight
- SSDs’ Weaknesses
- Uncompetitive Price
- Wear
- Key Players: Company Profiles
- SanDisk/msystems
- Samsung
- BitMICRO
- STEC (formerly SimpleTech)
- SMART Modular/Centennial
- SiliconSystems
- Adtron
- Intel
- Others
- Key Markets for SSDs
- Added Features for the Military
- Durability
- Fast Erase
- Speed
- Power
- Long Product Life Cycle
- The Threat from NAND Disk Caches
- Relative Differences in Performance
- Relative Difference in Price
- Durability as the Sole Differentiator
- Outlook
- What is in Store for the HDD Business?
- Why Did Apple Convert to NAND for the iPod nano?
- Why HDDs Should Continue to Dominate PCs
- Reliability
- Durability
- Battery Life/Weight
- SSDs are Big Enough
- Affordable PCs
- Conclusion: Who Wins/Who Loses?
- Methodology
- Glossary
- Related In-Stat Reports
- List of Tables
- Table 1. Simple Comparison of HDD, SSD, and Hybrid Drives
- Table 2. HDD and SSD Costs for Increasing Capacities
- Table 3. HDD vs. SSD Cost Crossover Points Over Time
- Table 4. SSD Consumption by PC Type
- Table 5. Shipments of Various Drive Types Into PCs
- List of Figures
- Figure 1. Shipments of Solid State Drives (SSDs) into PCs
- Figure 2. Conceptual Diagram of HDD, DRAM, and NAND $/GB
- Figure 3. Block Diagram of Typical SSD
- Figure 4. SSD is More Economical than HDD at Very Low Capacities
- Figure 5. Capacity at which HDD Becomes More Economical than SSD
- Figure 6. SSD Consumption by PC Type
- Figure 7. SSD, Hybrid, and HDD Shipments into PCs
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