by Don Jeanette | Mar 29, 2017 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
It has definitely been a wild ride over the past four quarters when it comes to SSD pricing…. And, unfortunately for system OEMs and hyperscale companies, this trend of increasing prices doesn’t look like there will be any relief until later this year, and likely in...
by Don Jeanette | Nov 17, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Sequential unit shipment growth in all SSD segments – client SATA, client PCIe, Enterprise SATA, SAS, and PCIe – resulted in significant increases over the prior quarter. Client modules, targeting the OEM PC market, jumped almost 20% Q-Q, reflecting both a slightly...
by John Chen | Mar 31, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
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...
by Mark Geenen | May 29, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
In early May, TRENDFOCUS released various quarterly reports, which reviews the HDD and SSD industries’ performance in CQ1 ’15, and what effect it has on the updated quarterly forecast. Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) saw a sharp decline to 125M units sold, mainly due to the...