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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. Nowadays, compared to other SSDs, it ranks 4th (behind PCIe, 2.5" and 1.8" - based on search volume in the 2nd quarter 2010).

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. For other form factors see the listings in the Solid State Disks Buyers Guide
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Notes from SSD market history

The product shown below, from Mtron (which is no longer in business) was the most popular product here on StorageSearch.com in the period August 2007 to October 2007.
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SATA flash SSDs with 150M bytes / sec burst read and 80M bytes / sec sustained write time from MTRON
3.5" (128G) & 2.5" (32G) SATA SSDs
80MB/s sustained write
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Notes from SSD market history

The product shown below, from Imperial Technology (which is no longer in business) is an example of a 3.5" parallel SCSI SSD featured here on StorageSearch.com in June 2002.
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MegaRam-35 solid state disk from Imperial Technology - click for more info
MegaRam-35 - 3.5" SCSI SSD
from Imperial Technology

Notes from SSD market history

The product shown below, from Memtech (acquired by STEC in 2005) is an example of a 3.5" PATA SSD product featured here on StorageSearch.com in 2004 - the AT3550 Wolverine.
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low profile, high capacity  3.5" IDE military temperature range solid state disks from Memtech
3.5" low profile IDE
mil temp solid state disks
from Memtech
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3.5 inch SSD OEMs
manufacturer interface(s)
AboUnion IDE
SATA
A-DATA SATA
Adtron IDE
SATA
SCSI-2
UltraSCSI
Altec ComputerSysteme IDE
BiTMICRO Networks Fibre Channel
IDE
SCSI narrow
UltraSCSI
Curtis Fibre Channel
Density Dynamics Fibre Channel
DTS SATA
Foremay SATA
SAS
Hagiwara Sys-Com IDE
SATA
SCSI narrow
Imation SATA
KingFast SATA
MemoCom PATA
SATA
Myung IDE
SATA
SCSI
Pliant Technology SAS
PQI IDE
RunCore PATA
SATA
SAS
SMART Modular Technologies U160SCSI
STEC Fibre Channel
IDE
SAS
Super Talent Technology SATA
Trident Space & Defense SATA
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OCZ will demo 3.5" PCIe SSD
Editor:- August 5, 2010 - At the Flash Memory Summit later this month OCZ says it will demonstrate a new 3.5" SSD with what it calls a High Speed Data Link interface - which is PCIe physically connected via a SAS connector.

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