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 - in May 2009 - it was
the 3rd most popular SSD form factor - ranked by
search volume. Here
are the top 5.
1 -
2.5" SSDs
2 -
PCIe SSDs
3 -
3.5" SSDs
4 -
1.8" SSDs
5
- SSD SoCs
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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