SSDs Shipments to outsell HDD shipments by 2021

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/12/2017 07:34 AM | source: | 18 comment(s)

Statista made a prognosis on the developing trend of SSD sales, their analysis shows that by 2021, there will be more SSDs sold than HDDs by 2021. This year less than 400 million HDDs will be shipped.

This statistic shows shipment numbers for hard disk and solid state drives (HDDs and SSDs) worldwide from 2015 to 2021. Estimates suggest that shipments of HDDs will decline, faling to 395 million units shipped in 2017.

SSD shipments are expected to increase to 190 million shipped units that same year. Hard disk drives (HDD) are data storage devices used for storing and retrieving digital information. They are non-volatile memory, meaning that they retain data even when unpowered. The main competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid state drives (SSDs). Currently HDDs generally offer greater recording capacity, a better price per unit of storage, and a longer product lifetime, while SSDs are faster, generally more durable, and consume less power.

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Emille
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#5480907 Posted on: 10/12/2017 08:07 AM

Yasss. Can you imagine all those office machines across the world, reception desks waiting forever as pdfs, excell documents wtc taking forever to open, and then bam, storage revolution happens and every pc had an ssd.

Internet speeds and network speeds are still a problem. But hard drive limitations are a much bigger proplem.

Can't wait till the change.

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#5480962 Posted on: 10/12/2017 11:42 AM

All computers in my office are SSD equiped. It changes alot for daily work even for pdf documents

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#5480988 Posted on: 10/12/2017 12:48 PM

You have to remember all of the countries that don't have the resources or are slow to bring aboard new technology. I remember the days of tapes on computers!

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#5481025 Posted on: 10/12/2017 03:30 PM

I'm a bit surprised it is expected to take that long. HDDs are now really only seen in super high-capacity situations (where they're still significantly cheaper than SSDs) or in budget PCs. The average person doesn't need more than 1TB, and SSDs tend to get too expensive once you reach 1TB capacities. I'm seeing devices everywhere starting to ship with SSDs as the only option, and almost everyone who builds their own PCs gets at least 1 SSD.

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#5481032 Posted on: 10/12/2017 03:45 PM

Considering you can buy 1TB HDD's @7200rpms for $50 right now, it's going to be awhile before SSD prices get that low...

This estimate probably includes similar price reductions in SSD's, which remains to be seen. I think SSD's are great and I love mine, but they have a long way to go before becoming competitive in either price or capacity with HDDs.

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