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TrendForce: 56% of PCs Sold Will Come With SSDs by 2018

posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 30 2016, @03:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the hear-the-silence dept.

takyon writes:

CNET reports:

They've been a fixture of the computing industry for 60 years, but in 2018, hard drives will be pushed aside by storage systems using memory chips in PCs, an analyst firm predicts. [...] SSDs no longer are exotic. This year, 33 percent of PCs sold will come with SSDs, but that should grow to 56 percent in 2018, analyst firm TrendForce forecast Monday.

They predicted 44% adoption in 2017. SSD prices are expected to drop to $0.17/GB in 2017, a direct result of new generations of 3D/vertical NAND.

As for those 3D XPoint post-NAND devices coming from Intel and Micron, the initial capacities could be closer to 140 GB than the 16-32 GB I originally expected.

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by requerdanos on Tuesday August 30 2016, @06:37PM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 30 2016, @06:37PM (#395392) Journal

    64GB ought to be enough for anyone

    Just wow.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday August 30 2016, @07:33PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday August 30 2016, @07:33PM (#395402)

    That's only a compounded 39% yearly increase from the original 35 years ago.

    Would you have preferred "640G for anyone", which would be a 48% average annual growth?

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by RamiK on Tuesday August 30 2016, @07:54PM

    by RamiK (1813) on Tuesday August 30 2016, @07:54PM (#395408)

    I've seen 64\128GB RAM systems without an SSD. To quote the owner: That's what tmpfs is for.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @10:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @10:32PM (#395480)

    No, back in the day, 48 KB was enough for anyone and was luxury. Most systems were 4K-16K. Except for that stupid Commodore 64!

    And then I got a 5 1/4" Disc Drive that could store 100KB PER DISK!!!

    I was a Senior in High School when I saw a networked 5 MB "Hard Drive." Why anyone would ever have needed 1 MB, let alone 5, was beyond me.

    Now, do you want me to tell you about this "Laser" that could be used to destroy Washington, DC, using my "Death Star" in the plan we now call "The Alan Parsons Project?" No? Then pay me 1 MILL-ION DOLLARS!