Nearline HDD: The Cloud Dominates Enterprise Storage Demand
Capacity enterprise, or nearline HDDs are a mainstay for inexpensive, reliable bulk storage, utilized by nearly all enterprise market segments, including servers, network or external storage and hyperscale or could service providers. For as long as TRENDFOCUS has been...
It’s not all about SSDs – HDDs turn to enjoy the moment
In a recent blog, my colleague wrote about the current NAND supply tightness and how it may or may not affect SSD supply and price. SSDs are the “hot” topic and are front and center of everyone’s focus – especially since FMS (Flash Memory Summit) starts this week....
Is the NAND shortage really going to effect SSDs?
As we stated in a recent blog, NAND is, in fact, in short supply these days. But let’s be honest, is it really going to effect the supply going to SSDs? Will our options for buying an SSD-base notebook PC dry up over the next few quarters? Or will notebook PCs with...
E3: Sony Looks to Take VR Mainstream
E3 2016, a show focused primarily on the latest games for PCs and consoles, maintained a strong focus on virtual reality (VR) this year. With Facebook’s Occulus Rift VR headset now available, high-end PC gamers with the proper hardware and the $599 to spend on the...
Something HDD companies have not heard in a very long time – good news (potentially) on the horizon
In the past, good news for HDD companies was usually linked to higher PC sales. However, this time, the good news comes from an unlikely source, the competition. The rapid takedown of SSD prices during the last two years have led to accelerating SSD attach rates in...
SSD industry shows resiliency in an otherwise down market for both HDDs and PCs
TRENDFOCUS has just released its latest NAND/SSD Quarterly update. In this latest report, covering CQ1 '16 results and the updated quarterly forecast, all segments, both client and enterprise, saw growth from CQ4 '15. In an otherwise down market for HDDs, the...
Unstoppable SSD Growth
As many storage companies have recently released their CQ1 ‘16 results, it is very clear – SSDs are winning the race! Even as we witnessed a drastic decline in the client PC market in Q1 (almost -15% Q-Q), client SSDs are anticipated to show yet another increase in...
Device Makers Push Further into the System Space
During the week of April 11, 2016, three notable enterprise system-related announcements were made by three storage device companies. Micron held an analyst day at its recently opened Storage Solutions Center in Austin, Texas, while HGST unveiled a new addition to its...
PCIe Starting to Show Strength (In Some Segments)
If anyone has been in the storage industry for a number of years, we can all agree that there was so much hype about PCIe taking over the SSD world! Since around 2012 you couldn’t be at a trade show or meeting without having to hear ‘isn’t PCIe going to kill off SATA...
Rack-Scale Flash: Maximizing Flash Performance
SSDs in traditional storage systems, either as hybrid arrays or all flash arrays (AFAs) have been in the news for a number of years now, becoming mainstream solutions options to improve storage performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) for many IT datacenter...