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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: 2) by Teckla on Wednesday August 31 2016, @04:46PM

    by Teckla (3812) on Wednesday August 31 2016, @04:46PM (#395736)

    Try to push 1TB of data into the cloud from most US locations, and suddenly redundant spinning rust doesn't sounds too bad.

    Normal people should keep their data in the cloud, because normal people do not keep backups, for several reasons:

    • They're lazy, too busy, or both
    • It's simply technically too hard (this is a failure of the software industry, not a failure of non-technical people)
    • A backup isn't a backup if it's onsite
    • Spinning rust fails too often

    I empathize with the pain of the initial "big backup" to the cloud, but it's really what the vast majority of people should be using.

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