According to the latest report, shipments of solid-state drives have increased during the second quarter.

Despite the drop in PC sales during this quarter, solid-state drives (SSDs) have been doing well and have increased by 2.9 percent in the second quarter. According to a report from TrendFocus, the sales of SSDs have reached 23.859 million units with total shipped capacity increase of 13.3 percent to 6.4 Exabytes.

The same report also suggest that sales of standard 2.5-inch consumer SSDs for notebooks have dropped but shipments of SATA SSDs for datacenters have increased by 48.6 percent during second quarter. Sales of enterprise-class SAS-interface SDDs have also decreased by 10 percent compared to the last quarter and sales of SSDs based on PCI-Express interface are under 100,000 units.

Samsung still holds the crown as the world's largest supplier of SSDs in the world with 43.8 percent of market share. The big winner is Kingston, which managed to increase SSD shipments and become world's second SSD supplier with 10.7 percent of market share. While SanDisk and Toshiba are producing about 50 percent of all NAND flash chips, their SSD market share is at around 14 percent.

Things are definitely moving forward with SSDs but HDDs are still popular even if they suffered a drop to 111 million units in the second quarter, according to earlier report by Western Digital.



Source: Kitguru.net.