How popular is the 3.5"
format for SSDs?
It has declined. 5 years ago it was the most
popular form factor out of the hard disk sizes. More recently it has declined.
See table (right).
But the 3.5 inch form factor remains a strategic
market which reveals a lot about the different types of application for high
performance storage drives in legacy servers. In the 3.5" package we find
hard disks,
hybrid drives,
flash based SSDs
and even
RAM SSDs competing for
slots, often with exactly the same interfaces. Some of these 3.5"
products listed here are "no compromise"
solid state disks which
offer the fastest performance and maximum capacities available in traditional
hard disk form factors,
or which can survive in the most rugged extremes of environment while consuming
very low power.
As with all the tables on
STORAGEsearch.com the data in this
reference article is updated in real-time to reflect changes in the market.
For
other form factors see the listings in the
Solid State Disks
Buyers Guide |
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