by Jason Lervold | 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 Jason Lervold | 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 Jason Lervold | Jul 8, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
I tried to think back in the recent past to see when the storage industry made an immediate shift to a new interface or form factor, along with the reasons behind it. I was able to come up with one, very definite example – Parallel ATA (PATA) to Serial ATA (SATA) in...
