On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Richard Elling wrote:
According to Gartner, enterprise SSDs accounted for $92.6M of a $585.5M SSD market in June 2009, representing 15.8% of the SSD market. STEC recently announced an order for $120M of ZeusIOPS drives from "a single enterprise storage customer." From 2007 to 2008, SSD market grew by 100%. IDC reports Q1CY09 had $4,203M for the external disk storage factory revenue, down 16% from Q1CY08 while total disk storage systems were down 25.8% YOY to $5,616M[*]. So while it looks like enterprise SSDs represented less than 1% of total storage revenue in 2008, it is the part that is growing rapidly. I would not be surprised to see enterprise SSDs at 5-10%
While $$$ are important for corporate bottom lines, when it comes to the number of units deployed, $$$ are a useless measure when comparing disk drives to SSDs since SSDs are much more expensive and offer much less storage space.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
