This conclusion occurred after the annual meeting of the hard disk organization in Japan, which after that meeting published a report exciting facts about the market which we quickly note and analyze. It can be said that that information is based on market trends as we are obviously in early 2020, and in fact they don't even have sales data for all of 2019.
SSD sales never stop growing
Of course The tendency of the market is to slowly abandon traditional traditional drives when pursuing SSDs. As you know, they are much faster, cheaper and eat less, and today their price is only allowed to have a capacity of 1 TB without a lot of money, so their slow and old machine equipment is losing more land, at least in the domestic sphere because it is undeniable for companies. and in data organizations its maximum power and price estimates per GB remain high.
Similarly, even in a business environment multiple SSDs are used, and not only to create SSD cache but also as storage locations for sensitive servers where high speed is required.
In any case, the forecast is for SSD sales this year exceeds 280 million units, surpassing the first time in history the firm's regular driver sales. Hard disk sales have been around for 5 years, and SSD sales have not stopped growing (39% in the last year).
Price per GB of SSDs, the key to its success
When SSDs hit the market, the first units are very expensive and not available to the person on foot. The 32 GB SSD SATA 2 interface (even SATA 3) costs over 100 euros. Today at the same price you have SSD Drives for 1 TB capacity, which has a SATA 3 connectivity and high durability, indicating that price per GB of these units has improved, and the true course is to keep improving.
We'll see some interesting details in the graphs and tables above:
- Currently SSDs already offer a greater benefit than hard drives.
- The sheer volume of SSDs has been steadily increasing, but slowly, it talks about equilibrium, rather than hard drives.
- The cost per GB of SSDs is very low, and at a much lower cost than hard drives.
According to this last data, they never mentioned that the time would come the amount per GB of SSDs is lower than that of hard drives, a condition that if in doubt could be the cause of the complete disappearance of the latter.
