Over the years the SSD market has become saturated with a many companies competing for market share. According to a report from Forward Insights it looks like Samsung and Kingston are selling by far the most units.



According to the data from Forward Insights, Samsung claimed 21 percent of the global SSD market in 2016, followed by Kingston with 16 percent. All the other vendors are only capable of achieving single digit percentages regarding market share. According to the analysts, a total of 63 million SSDs have been sold in 2016, which means that Samsung 13.23 million units and Kingston Kingston achieved 10.1 million drives. It’s quite impressive to see that Kingston has managed to secure a solid second place regarding market share. Especially since Kingston doesn’t own any manufacturing plant, which is a huge disadvantage over Samsung for instance.

Looking at the report it shows that “other” account for 30% market share, which is a huge chunk. One thing that is not perfectly clear is whether Forward Insights, in the case of Samsung, only counted the units sold by Samsung Electronics or if they also included the numbers from Samsung Semiconductor, through which Samsung handles its OEM clients. If this report only mentions the units sold by Samsung Electronics then arguably quite a few Samsung units must be in the “other” section.



Source: TheSSDReview