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SSD Market History - Charting the 30 Year Rise of the Solid State Disk Market

After 2 decades in "virtual stealth mode", and many false starts and setbacks, the SSD market is now coming out as a fully mature, easy to use, technology which will change the way in which all computer systems, from notebooks to blade servers in the datacenter, are architected.
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STORAGEsearch.com published its 1st dedicated SSD buyers directory 11 years ago (in 1998) and was the 1st publication to note the potential of SSDs as a breakthrough multibillion dollar technology in our SSD Market Adoption Models published in 2003 and 2005.

This SSD Market History article is updated monthly from significant milestones featured in our storage news page.
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Coming of Age for Solid State Disks

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lthough manufacturers in the industrial controls market, like Square D and AB were using rewritable user removable non volatile solid state storage as early as the 1970s, it wasn't till much later that the solid state disk market evolved into a form which we would recognise today. For most of its early life, this technology remained an open secret - mainly used in embedded systems in military applications, or in high performance computer research labs.

There were many false starts with Non Volatile semiconductor technologies which didn't survive.

In the late 1970s - silicon nitride EAROMs (electrically alterable ROMs) were marketed by a company called General Instruments. Unfortunately after about 3 years - it became clear that the extrapolated data life of 10 years wouldn't be achieved in practise. As a result this product was dropped by users and didn't survive in the market.

1976 - Dataram sold an SSD called BULK CORE which attached to minicomputers from Modular Computer Systems and emulated hard disks made by DEC and Data General. Each chassis held 8x 256k x 18 RAM modules and had a capacity of 2 megabytes.

... ...32 years later:- (in October 2008) Dataram re-entered the SSD market with its acquisition of Cenatek.

In 1978 - a gigabyte of RAM SSD would have cost $1 million. Texas Memory Systems introduced a 16 kilobyte RAM-based solid state disk system designed to accelerate field seismic data acquisition for oil companies.

1980 - Dataram marketed an updated version of their BULK CORE SSD for use with DEC PDP-11 and Data General minis.

In the early 1980s - Intel's 1M bit bubble memory created a lot excitement as a new non volatile solid state memory technology. Intel shipped design kits and boards to developers using this technology - which was positioned as a solid state floppy disk. But it failed to be scalable or cost effective. Intel spun off the magnetic division in 1987 to Memtech (who later made flash SSDs) but bubble memory dropped into oblivion.

1985 - Adtron founded.

1985 - Curtis introduced the ROMDISK, the first SSD for the original IBM PC.

In 1987 EMC introduced SSD storage for the mini-computer market, which was the hottest part of the server market at that time. EMC's SSDs were 20x faster than the then available hard disks. But market forces and losses led to EMC exiting the "memory enhancement" business soon after.

... ...21 years later:- EMC re-entered the SSD market in January 2008 - with arrays populated by flash SSDs from STEC. This time the market was hungry for this type of solution.

1988 - SanDisk founded.

In 1990 - NEC marketed 5.25" SCSI SSDs using internal battery backed RAM.

In 1991 Digital Equipment Corp marketed the EZ5x family of Solid State Disk accelerators. However, SPARC servers from Sun already ran 2 to 3 times faster than DEC's servers at about half the price of DEC's Vax servers (without needing SSDs). SSDs did not save DEC's server business. Faster processors might have done. DEC's gamble on denser ECL chip technology - with its Trilogy venture - was an expensive failure.

In 1993 - Solid Data Systems was founded.

In 1994 - StorageTek documents mention a RAM SSD product called Arctic Fox which had been developed by a company called Amperif Corp, acquired in 1993.

In 1995 - our SPARC Directory listed 2 SSD products aimed at the Sun server market.
  • T8000 - was an 80MB, 10MBps SSD on a single slot SBus card, made by Colorado based CERAM. Units in multiple slots could be chained to appear as a single SSD upto 960M. Performance was 2,000 IOPs.
  • SAM-2000 was a rackmount SSD upto 8GB, with 500MBps internal bandwidth- made by Texas Memory Systems. The transfer rate through the SBus adapter was 22MBps. Other bus interfaces included VMEbus and HIPPI.
In 1996 - ATTO Technology maketed the SiliconDisk II. It was a 5.25" form factor SCSI-3 interface RAM SSD with 64MB to 1.6GB capacity. Throughput was 80MB/s, and performance was 22,000 IOPS.

In 1997 - a white paper by Peripheral Concepts listed the main SSD vendors as:- Quantum, Imperial Technology, SEEK Systems, and Solid Data Systems.

In 1998 - STORAGEsearch.com published an online directory of solid state disk vendors - in which Megabyte was shown chipping away at a rock - which remains the current site metaphor used for general SSDs.

In 1999 - BiTMICRO launched an 18GB 3.5" flash SSD.

In November 1999 - the number of market active SSD manufacturers listed on STORAGEsearch.com had reached 11.

In January 2000 - after 8 years featuring editorial about SSDs in our various publications, Curtis became our first SSD advertiser.

In June 2001 - Adtron shipped the world's highest capacity 3.5" flash SSD. The S35PC had 14 gigabytes capacity and cost $42,000.

In Q1 2001 - SSDs were the 18th most popular subject with our readers.

In October 2001 - the number of market active SSD manufacturers listed on STORAGEsearch.com had reached 21.


2002 - terabyte SSDs become commercially available




In Q1 2002 - SSDs were 4th most popular subject with our readers.

In November 2002 - Bill Gates, talking about Tablet PC's said:- "There are also a lot of peripherals that need to improve here. ...Eventually even the so-called solid state disks will come along and not only will we have the mechanical disks going down to 1.8 inch but some kind of solid state disk in the next three to four years will be part of different Tablet PCs."

In Q4 2002 - we ran our first ad for a NAS SSD. It was the NAS-168F from IEI.


2003 - StorageSearch.com asks - what do SSD buyers want?

In 2003 StorageSearch.com conducted the world's 1st survey of SSD Buyer buyer preferences. We also published the 1st SSD Buyers Guide which included prices, and the 1st market model estimating the $10 billion / year potential of the SSD market.


In Q1 2003 - SSDs were 2nd most popular subject with our readers..

In February 2003 - Competitors Texas Memory Systems and Imperial Technology announced the world's first terabyte class SSD systems.

The Tera-RamSan, from TMS, provided 2 million IOPS, a 1024 gigabyte capacity, and 128 2-Gbit Fibre Channel links. It required 2 racks and 5000 watts.

The MegaRam-10000, from Imperial, cost $2 million for a 1TB subsystem with 48 fibre channel ports.

In May 2003 - Imperial Technology launched the WhatsHot SSD analysis tool.

In Q2 2003 - SSDs were #1 most popular subject with our readers.. That's why we researched and compiled the first Solid State Disks Buyers Guide in July 2003 which collected together in one convenient document pricing information from across the whole SSD industry. It covered the range of budgets from under $50 up to $2 million and everything in between.


2004 - SSDs become top searches on StorageSearch.com

There were many other contenders vying for our readers' attention. For a contemporary view of what was happening see this article - The Rising Stars of Storage and the Dogs which Failed to Bark in 2004


In September 2004 - BiTMICRO announced it was developing iSCSI SSDs. But due to the hyped iSCSI market in 2004 being 10x smaller than analyst predictions - this product was quietly shelved.

In Q3 2004 - a solid state disk manufacturer, Texas Memory Systems, became the #1 company profile viewed by our readers (out of more than 1,000 storage company profiles in September 2004). We also disclosed that the Solid state disks directory (still at #1) got 42% more pageviews than the year ago period.

In October 2004 - STORAGEsearch opened the SSD Survey a 3 month major market research study to learn more about SSD buyer preferences, applications and attitudes. Results from the survey were published in articles in 2005 and detailed findings helped SSD vendors understand the needs of buyers better, and helped them develop marketing plans which worked around the prevailing disinhibitors to product take-up and leverage the enablers cited by buyers in the survey.

Also in October 2004 - BiTMICRO Networks shipped the world's first Ultra320 SCSI flash solid state disk.

In November 2004 - STORAGEsearch published the 2nd annual Solid State Disks Buyers Guide. This listed every type of SSD available in the market by interface type and form factor. It also included a summary of major developments in the SSD market in the preceding year.

In December 2004 - It was revealed that Solid State Disks were the Product Category of the Year 2004 on STORAGEsearch.com based on reader pageviews. The Solid State Disk page was the #1 category (out of more than 70 vertical storage subjects) viewed by readers for 44 of the first 50 weeks in 2004. In previous years - the product category of the year in 2002 and 2003 (2 years running) was SATA. Three of the world's fastest growing storage companies in 2004:- (M-Systems, SimpleTech and Texas Memory Systems) were solid state disks manufacturers.


2005 - Samsung declares SSDs a strategic market




In January 2005 - STORAGEsearch disclosed results of the SSD Survey to strategic oem customers. The results included buyer preferences for form factor and interface, budgetary data and factors which would make it easier for SSD vendors to do more business in future. Selected extracts from the survey results also appeared in articles and editorial.

In March 2005 - SiliconSystems announced that Bell Microproducts would distribute its SSD products in North America. This would greatly simplify the access to this technology for thousands of systems integrators and oems.

In March 2005 - 5 out of the top 10 company profiles viewed by STORAGEsearch.com readers in March were SSD Makers (out of more than 1,000 storage company profiles). Site readership grew 6% compared to the year ago period and pageviews grew by 25%.

In April 2005 - Texas Memory Systems offered the world's first performance related guarantees for SSD products. That they would outperform any competing storage system, or meet the customer's agreed application speedup expectation - or the customer would get their monry back. This approach was founded on market research data from STORAGEsearch.com's Q405 SSD User Survey - which said that users would be more likely to try SSD systems if vendors offered such guarantees.

Also in April 2005 - Solid Access Technologies made the first SSD with a Serial Attached SCSI interface.

In May 2005 - Samsung Electronics announced it was entering the SSD market with 1.8" and 2.5" drives. This is the first time in this phase of the SSD market's development that a multibillion dollar company (Samsung's 2004 revenue was $55.2 billion ) has entered the market.

Also in May 2005 - this was the first time that the term "solid state disk" generated enough volume to show up on the top referring searches to this site.

In June 2005 - M-Systems announced availability of the industry's highest capacity 2.5" SATA SSD with 128 gigabytes of storage. SATA had been identified in STORAGEsearch.com's Q404 market research survey as the #1 most popular interface for future applications. But at this stage in the market's development (Q205) only 10% of SSD vendors (3) actually offered products with this interface.

In July 2005 - Texas Memory Systems launched the industry's first SSDs with a 4Gb/s Fibre Channel interface. The 3U rackmount system offered upto 128-gigabytes capacity and 500,000 random I/Os per second performance.

In August 2005 - SimpleTech acquired Memtech. The acquisition of one SSD company by another has (so far) been a rare occurrence but could become more common in future.

In September 2005 - SimpleTech launched the world's first dual interface SSD. At launch time the Zeus Dual Interface SSD, with both a USB and SATA interface, offered capacities up to 192GB in a 3.5-inch form factor, and sustained read/write rates of 60 MBytes per second.

In November 2005 - STORAGEsearch published a new updated market penetration model for the SSD market called - Why are Most Analysts Wrong About Solid State Disks?

Also in November 2005 - Texas Memory Systems demonstrated the first solid state disk with a native InfiniBand interface at the Supercomputing conference.


2006 - SSD awareness flares into notebook user market




In January 2006 - NextCom became the first notebook maker to qualify flash SSDs* for use in Windows XP, Linux and Solaris notebooks.

In March 2006 - Samsung Electronics started shipping 1.8" 32GB flash SSD drives. Quoting projections from Web-Feet Research, Samsung said it expected that the SSD market would double to $1.3 billion in 2007 and reach $4.5 billion by 2010.

Also in March 2006 - the number of market active SSD manufacturers listed on STORAGEsearch.com had reached 36.

In April 2006 - Solid Access Technologies became the first SSD manufacturer to display end user pricing online for the full range of its SSD products. Previously the volatile nature of memory pricing and fear of price led competition had meant that most SSD oems declined to publish any pricing data. The SSD pricing exclusion zone included their own websites, press releases related to product launches, and even our own SSD Buyers Guide.

In May 2006 - Samsung launched the world's first high volume Windows XP notebook using SSDs.

In June 2006 - SiliconSystems launched its SiliconDrive Secure family which included the widest range of available storage security features in a solid state disk.

In July 2006 - market research company In-Stat predicted that 50% of mobile computers would use SSDs (instead of hard disks) by 2013.

Also in July 2006 - Xiotech announced support for solid state disks as accelerators in its Magnitude 3D 3000 virtual storage systems - making it the first Fibre channel SAN switch maker to support SSD technology.

In August 2006 - the number of market active SSD manufacturers listed on STORAGEsearch.com had reached 41.

DV Nation became the first US reseller to market SSDs online aimed at consumers and SMBs.

In September 2006 - Samsung Electronics announced first working prototypes of PRAM - Phase-change Random Access Memory. This is a new non-volatile RAM technology. Samsung said PRAM is expected to replace high density NOR flash within the next decade

Also in September 2006 - the growth of market interest in SSDs was revealed by STORAGEsearch.com's web statistics. Pageviews on our main SSD page increased 50% in September compared to the year before period, even though readership had only grown by 10%. The pageview growth happened despite the fact that the SSD page had slipped down to #3 (out of hundreds of storage categories.) This indicates a concentrated shift by readers towards the hottest subjects that matter most to their future plans. At the same time a greater proportion of the most popular storage articles were about SSDs.

Also in September 2006 - Broadbus was acquired by Motorola.

In October 2006 - SimpleTech acquired UK SSD maker Gnutek.

In November 2006 - Microsoft announced business availability of its new Vista operating system - the first PC market OS which included SSD-aware support and native SSD cache management.

Also in November 2006 - SimpleTech demonstrated the first single chip SSD with USB or IDE interface. The chip is available with upto 4GB capacity.

Also in November 2006 - SanDisk acquired M-Systems which had been the fastest growing storage company in 2004.

In December 2006 - Microsoft published an article:- Windows PC Accelerators - which described in detail how the recently launched Windows Vista OS supports solid state disks.

Also in December 2006 - Advanced Media entered the SSD market taking the total number of SSD manufacturers listed on STORAGEsearch.com to 44 - which is 4 times as many as in 1999.


SSD Market History - 2007

I called 2007 - the "Year of SSD Revolutions".

This was the year in which 2.5" and 3.5" flash SSDs from Mtron and Memoright broke away from the me-too performance pack - and showed that single flash SSD drives in traditional HDD form factors could economically challenge the R/W throughput and random IOPs of the fastest enterprise hard drives.

Meanwhile rackmount flash SSDs from EasyCo (array of COTS SSDs) and Texas Memory Systems (proprietary flash array) showed that flash SSDs could replace some market niches previously held by RAM SSDs - at much lower cost and without worrying about wear-out.

Fears and myths about endurance had in earlier years precluded flash as a serious contender in high R/W applications. And although those problems would reoccur - with good reasons - in later phases of the market - SLC was a safe technology choice in server apps - provided the controller architecture was designed correctly.


SSD Market History - 2008

This is the year which the number of SSD oems passed 100 companies, and in the server market fast flash SSDs broke the asymmetric R/W IOPS barrier!


SSD Market History - 2009

I explained why I thought 2009 would go down in history as the Year of SSD Market Confusion. This is the year in which search volume for PCIe SSDs surpassed that for any other SSD form factor - knocking 2.5" SSDs off the #1 slot.

It was also the year that flash SSDs reached the same storage density as hard drives in the same form factor.


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SSD Myths and Legends - "write endurance"
Does the fatal gene of "write endurance" built into flash solid state disks prevent their deployment in intensive server acceleration applications - such as RAID systems?
It was certainly true as little as a few years ago.

What's the risk with today's devices?

This article looks at the current generation of products and calculates how much (or how little) you should be worried.
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RAM based SSDs have been used alongside RAID for years - but flash SSDs are physically smaller and have bigger capacity (upto 412G in 2.5", 832G in 3.5") and are lower cost than RAM-SSDs and could actually be configured in standard RAID boxes. F-SSDs aren't as fast as RAM based products but a single flash SSD can deliver 20,000 IOPs - which when scaled up in an array - starts to look interesting. ...read the article, storage reliability solid state disks
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the Fastest Solid State Disks

Speed isn't everything, and it comes at a price.
But if you do need the speediest SSD then wading through the web sites of 100 current SSD oems to find a suitable candidate slows you down.

And the SSD search problem will get even worse.
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I've done the research for you to save you time. And this page is updated daily from storage news and direct inputs from oems. ...read the article,
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article:-  Flash Memory vs. Hard Disk Drives - Which Will Win? - by Semico Research
Flash Memory vs. Hard Disk Drives - Which Will Win? - article by Semico Research

There's a confusing picture in many consumer products like phones, cameras and music players in which one day it seems that the storage function is done by flash and next day another company announces they're doing the same thing with miniature hard disks.

Is there any sense to this seemingly random choice?

This article uses pricing trends, technology trends and unique market analysis insights to show that users and oems may be able to reliably predict which storage devices will be most cost effective depending where you are on the future history curve. ...read the article, ...Semico Research profile, Hard disk drives, Flash Memory, Market research, Solid state disks
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Z's Laws - Predicting Future Flash SSD Performance
A few months ago a reader asked me a very good question.

"Is there an industry roadmap for future flash SSD performance?"

That prompted other questions like...
  • How fast are flash SSDs going to be in 2009?, 2010? or 2012?
  • What are the technology factors which relate to flash SSD throughput and IOPS?
  • How close will flash SSDs get to RAM SSD performance?
There wasn't a simple answer I could give at the time. Clues lay scattered all across this web site and in my many one on one discussions with readers about the market...
But I agreed there should be a single place on the web where these answers could be found.

Forget Moore's Law. That gives you the wrong answer, and this article explains why. ...read the article
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Timeline Correction

I originally stated that - in January 2006 - NextCom became the first notebook maker to qualify flash SSDs*.

I later added the note "for use in Windows XP, Linux and Solaris notebooks."

Thanks to Robin Harris, editor StorageMojo.com for this email note (April 19, 2006).

"The original HP Omnibook 300 offered a PCMCIA flash disk as a several hundred dollar option ($400?) back in (I think) 1993.

"I know because I bought it and used one for years. The option had 10MB of capacity and HP packaged in a compression utility that automatically compressed everything on the flash card, so the effective capacity was 20MB.

"The real benefit wasn't weight, as the 300 weighed in at 2.9lbs with or without a hard disk. The win was battery life - which went to 10 hours with the SSD from about 3-4 hours with the HDD.

"With an instant-on feature that really worked, and a decent PDA and terminal emulation, built in Word & Excel (to which I added Powerpoint) I had a very solid, unfussy machine that I only had to charge every few days. Lived with it daily for 5 years until I had to give it up because it would no longer do what I needed."

See also:- article:- Passing of an Old Friend - HP's Omnibook

Editor:- strictly speaking the Omnibook drive wasn't an SSD, because it didn't include wear-leveling. But it was an early example of flash replacing hard disk storage in a notebook style product.
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This new article, published in Feb 2008, looks at the risks posed by MLC Nand Flash SSDs which have recently hatched from their breeeding ground as chip modules in cellphones and morphed into hard disk form factors.
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More about one the early references at the beginning of this article

I mentioned a company at the start of this article called "Square D.

In 1978 they launched their 2nd generation programmable controller called the SY/MAX-20. This was a real-time industrial computer which was EMI / RFI hardened to operate reliably in factory automation applications alongside welding equipment, cranes etc - and running through its entire program and updating all I/O deterministically every 20 milliseconds. It used an AMD bit slice architecture - organized as a 12 bit register and ALU - to run the company's interpreted ladder logic language an order of magnitude faster than the 8 bit microprocessors which were at that time available.

If you read the Pulitzer Prize winning Soul of a New Machine (published 1981) which describes what was happening in Data General's minicomputer design team - you get the general idea of what companies were doing at this time.

When I joined the SY/MAX-20 design team in 1979 - the bit slice product had already been in volume production for a while.

The company was worried about the customer removable solid state storage modules which held the customer programs. The 1st generation modules had used electrically alterable memory chips - but the permanence and wear-out were being revised drastically downwards compared to the original extrapolated life which chipmakers had forecast.

So as many other companies would do later - Square D - redesigned these modules to use battery backed CMOS RAMs. Because these computers directly operated big dangerous machines - in high electrical interference enviroments - it was critical to design protection circuits around the removable solid state memory which would guarantee that no data corruption occured regardless of how many transient spikes might hit the logic system.

Another factor was that the removable modules had to be capable of being dropped onto a concrete floor - when out of the system - and also be capable of being inserted and removed while the host system was under power - and run under extremes of temperature.

In my time at Square D I designed some intelligent analog I/O modules - and then moved onto other companies to focus on high accuracy process instrumentation and pushing some boundaries in analog design.

Later in the mid to late 80s I was technical manager at a company whose business was to design the world's fastest real-time I/O platforms for defense and research applications. There we used solid state storage to run disk operating systems in multi-processor VMEbus racks. We had to rewrite part of the OS, and we wrote all our own drivers too, but that was common in those days.

The solid state storage gave faster performance and better reliability than was available from disk systems. We also built our own RAID controller and designed data recorders which could do wire-speed throughput of analog data to hard disks and real-time radar to big memory arrays for our deep pocketed government customers. They could analyze the data too - with internal array processors or embedded SPARC workstations. It was great fun and a good education for my later career here at StorageSearch.com.
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SSD Industry Articles and Bookmarks - March 10, 2009

suggested by - Rey Bruce, CEO BiTMICRO
Here's an article written by or about BiTMICRO

Flash Solid State Disk Write Endurance in Database Environments

Rey Bruce says he chose this article because

"It contains valuable information and thorough discussion of issues surrounding Flash SSDs write endurance performance in various database applications in the enterprise market. It is a very good reference for everyone who seeks better understanding of what flash SSDs offer."

Other SSD article suggestions...

Storage vendors debate Flash as cache - published in IT Knowledge Exchange

Rey Bruce says he recommends this article because - "It is an indication of the SSD industry's diversified outlook in terms of the best usage for flash. It's all a matter of serving the right option for every customer."

Editor:- thanks Rey for sharing your SSD links.

see also:- BiTMICRO - editor mentions on StorageSearch.com

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