Tom’s Hardware: Client SSDs: Samsung Retains No.1 Spot, SSDs Outsell HDDs by 2.6x
By Anton Shilov via Tom's Hardware Shipments of solid-state drives in the second quarter of 2021 remained almost flat, due in part to a slight sequential decline in PC shipments in Q1 and to ever looming shadow of component shortages. Unit wise, SSDs outsold hard...
TRENDFOCUS Publishes Preliminary CQ2 2021 HDD Shipment Summary Report
CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TRENDFOCUS this month released its Preliminary CQ2 2021 HDD Shipment Summary Report, forecasting that the active nearline market will achieve record unit and capacity shipments for the category. At approximately 19 million units and...
Tom’s Hardware: Thailand Lockdowns Could Worsen HDD Shortage
By Anton Shilov via Tom's Hardware The hard drive market is already under pressure due to the emergence of cryptocurrency mining using hard drives, leading to stratospheric pricing, but that could become even worse in the coming months. According to some market...
Tom’s Hardware: Big HDDs Set New Sales Record: 288 Exabytes in Q1
By Anton Shilov via Tom's Hardware Unit shipments of hard drives in the first quarter of 2021 were down both sequentially and year-over-year as consumer devices continued their migration to SSDs. Still, HDD capacity sold during the quarter set a new record of 288...
Chia Driving the Wild (Storage) Land Rush
Over the past decade, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and a plethora of other competitors have grown from odd curiosities to arguably establishing new, more open and secure currencies and transaction methods tied to a principle known as blockchain. Without getting...
Tom’s Hardware: Reports Of PC HDDs’ Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: 139M Shipped in 2020
By Anton Shilov via Tom's Hardware In a world where you cannot cram a hard drive into a modern thin-and-light laptop and a cheap high-capacity 2.5-inch SSD can replace an HDD in a desktop, you would expect consumer hard disk drives to go extinct. Yet, while their unit...
Forbes: Seagate Introduces HAMR HDDs, CORTX And Lyve Drive Rack
By Tom Coughlin via Forbes Seagate’s latest DataSphere event allowed the company to talk about their shipping 18 TB HAMR HDDs and soon to come 20 TB drives as well as their CORTX open source intelligent object storage software. CORTX software is used on the Lyve Drive...
Tech Target: SAS vs. NVMe: The future of the two key storage interfaces
By Stacey Peterson via Tech Target As NVMe SSDs make inroads into the enterprise market, the question remains: What's in store for SAS drives? While they don't provide the performance enhancements and latency reduction of NVMe SSDs, they do have a future. For all...
Strong Hyperscale Market Dominates Lackluster OEM Storage Demand – Capacity Shipped Rises 8% Q-Q to 73 Exabytes, $5.7 Billion
TRENDFOCUS reported that CQ3 ’17 enterprise storage device shipments of HDDs and SSDs posted solid exabyte growth as major cloud and hyperscale customers continue the current cycle of expansion. Capacity enterprise, or nearline, HDDs that provide cost-effective bulk...
Enterprise PCIe Grows as All Other Segments Decline
TRENDFOCUS has just released its CQ3 ’17 Quarterly Update for the NAND/SSD market. Only one segment, enterprise PCIe, saw unit growth where every other segment – client drive format factor, client modules, enterprise SATA and enterprise SAS, all declined from the...