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Looking at the SATA SSD Market

by Zsolt Kerekes, editor
If you're a newcomer to the SSD market you might get the impression that SATA SSDs ARE the SSD market!

It's certainly true that nearly half of the 200 companies making SSDs do offer SATA models. But the SSD market is much bigger than the SATA SSD market - and existed long before SATA became a standard.

The SATA SSD market is important - because by offering a like for like comparison with hard drives - in form factors like 3.5", 2.5" etc it showed server makers that the days of HDDs were numbered.

I often get asked - What's that number? How many days?

It depends on your business application, the cost benefits of performance, electrical power, reliability etc. Depending what market you're in - SSDs are already the most economic option - or will be at sometime before 2015. For more SSD clairvoyancy see the SSD analysts page.

2007 was the 1st time that SATA SSDs left HDDs in the dust when it came to performance - at the same time as offering usable capacity to replace SSDs in popular applications. My Flash SSD Performance Roadmap showed there was more to come, and sure enough as predicted...

In 2010 - some SATA 3 SSDs already offer 500MB/s throughput and 60K IOPS random performance. While others offer the same capacity as the biggest 2.5" hard drives. (Although not yet the same price.)


charting the rise the SATA SSD market

In 2004 - when StorageSearch.com conducted the industry's first SSD Buyer Preferences Survey 53% said that SATA compatible SSDs would suit their applications best. At that time there were no SATA SSDs in the market.

SSD oems took heed of these results and by the end of 2005 there were 4 SSD manufacturers offering SATA.

This had grown to 11 at the end of 2006 and rapidly accelerated in the following years to 30+ companies by the end of 2008 and 80+ companies by the 3rd quarter of 2010.
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The single big idea about SSD acceleration is that it can give you the same performance increase as doubling or trebling your processor clock speed!

In datacenters that means faster applications and budget saving by deploying less enterprise servers. In notebooks it means better performance and longer unplugged.. ...SSD Market Adoption model
SATA SSD popularity - 2011..........................
SATA SSDs have retained their high popularity with StorageSearch.com readers based on search volume in the 1st half of 2011.
  • SATA SSDs are the 2nd most popular search term by interface (#1 is PCIe SSDs)
  • SATA is the #1 most popular interface type viewed by readers following content related to 2.5" SSDs
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