by Jason Lervold | Nov 30, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
TRENDFOCUS recently released its latest quarterly analysis, which showed that 143 exabytes of HDD and SSD capacity shipped in CQ3 on a total of 145 million units. Western Digital and Seagate led the HDD industry, while Samsung, Kingston, and SanDisk topped the SSD...
by Jason Lervold | Nov 2, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog, Uncategorized
As a follow up to our blog posted on October 5, 2015, I wanted to comment further on the future of NAND output and how that will effect HDD demand, or not. We all know that NAND bit output continues to increase each year. This is enabled mainly by the development and...
by Jason Lervold | Oct 5, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
In the 2nd quarter of this year, all five NAND fabs combined to ship about 19 exabytes of NAND, or 19 million terabytes. About 1/3 of this total output went to SSDs, another 1/3 went towards smart phones, and the remaining balance going to tablets, thumb drives, and...
by Jason Lervold | Sep 1, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
TRENDFOCUS recently published its updated Quarterly NAND/SSD report covering the NAND & SSD industries’ performance in CQ2 ’15. In the SSD market, unit shipments increased, despite the fact that a good portion of the volume is tied to a weak notebook PC market....
by Jason Lervold | Aug 3, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
A colleague of mine brought up a great argument for why 500 GB Hard Disk Drives can remain the storage device of choice for most college students. In essence, it’s not the student’s choice, but rather the parent’s choice. Let’s think this through for a moment…. As...
