Report Overview

The future of global Solid State Drives SDD market is prophesied to be attractive with increasing digitization and growth of media content, across the globe. As per the study, global solid state drive market is estimated to cross the $60,000 million mark by 2023. On the account of significant advancement in technologies, high enterprise application demand for greater performance, storage, power efficiency, more dependability requirement from content generation industry, and swelling large data centers, the global SDD market has been gaining more traction in recent times.

A solid state drive (SDD) is a type of non-volatile storage media that stores persistent data on solid-state flash memory. The architectural configuration of a typical SDD controller is optimized to deliver high performance of read and write functions. Unlike hard disk drive (HDD), SDD has no moving part to break down and stop functioning. Apart from this, SDD is also a very much viable option for large data center as it offers speed, mass volume, and hierarchical storage mechanism.

Lucrative opportunities in the design and development of SDDs along with massively growing adoption of cloud technology, is firming a positive future of the global solid state drive industry. The study provides a thorough scenario of the present and conjecture solid state drive business around the globe. The prevalent trends, driver, opportunities, and restraints have been covered and incorporated in this industry analysis.

As per findings of the research, sales of SATA has been recorded the largest in the global market in 2018 and is expected to continue rising ahead in forecast years on the back of its excellent storage capabilities, hot swapping features, and data transfer speed. Additionally, the growth of high mass storage or even above 2TB is expected to witness fastest growth in the global market during the forecast period.

Emerging trends which promises a continuous growth of the global SDD market include rapid emergence of the wireless storage devices, relaxing regulation in regions, and growing digital content due to emergence of e-commerce and social media. Some factors which are driving the global market includes increasing utilization of the technology in personal computers, higher demand by consumer electronics segment, and reduction in application launch time. The global marketplace also fears challenges to growth from factors such as high cost of SSD, expensive manufacturing process, and low market awareness.

By region, North America has been the largest market for the sales of solid state drive due to mass adoption of personal computing systems by the citizens, and an early adoption of SSD by the regional organizations. However, the market in Asia-Pacific is expected to witness the fastest growth among all regions, during the forecast period. The anticipated growth in the Asia-Pacific market is expected due to increasing digitalization, advancement in new technologies, growth in media industry, and increasing adoption of cloud technologies by the enterprises. In addition to this, Asia-Pacific is developing as a service provider base for the globe, which is in turn attracting huge investment from the public and private players in the manufacturing of SSD as comparatively lower capital than developed regions.

The research states that the global SDD market is very slightly competitive, and moving towards a consolidating structure Players such as Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Intel Corporation, SanDisk Corporation Inc., and Toshiba Corporation are dominating the global market with string hold on consumer base and brand power. However, mid-level players are upgrading their design and development capabilities to compete in this marketplace.

Development in the SSD market:

The companies are strengthening their presence in SSD market with the acquisition. For instance, Western Digital had acquired SiliconSystems Inc. in a $65 million cash deal. The acquisition allows Western digital to enter in SSD market effectively and immediately

In April 2016, SanDisk Corp has reported an increase in quarterly revenue, due to strong demand for its chips used in solid-state drives and data centers.

In March 2017, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) has generated revenue of US$17 billion in solid state drive (SSD) segment in 2016. The SSD business of Toshiba also realized strong growth. The SSD segment revenue has increased by 114% year over year in 2016. In 2016, Toshiba has occupied the fourth share position in the SSD market. In SSD market, the major customers for Toshiba are data centers. In 2003, Samsung had hold 60% market share in SSD market.

We will also cover cost comparison for SSD and HDD for enterprise

Key factors consideration for market sizing:

·         Analysis of data generation by country

·         Analysis of need of data storage

·         Impact analysis of cybercrime, data hacks by country

·         Analysis of storage solutions

·         Adoption of storage solutions by enterprises

·         Pricing analysis of storage solutions

·         Factors for the growth of digitalization

·         Analysis of electronics industry by country

·         Analysis of value chain in SSD

·         Micro economic factors

o   GDP

o   ICT spending of country

o   ICT sending by industry vertical

1.       Research Objective

1.1.    Objective of the Study

1.2.    Market Definition

1.3.    Market Scope

1.3.1. Market Segmentation by Type

1.3.1.1.              Internal

1.3.1.2.              External

1.3.2. Market Segmentation by Interface

1.3.2.1.              SATA

1.3.2.2.              SAS

1.3.2.3.              PCIe

1.3.3. Market Segmentation by Storage

1.3.3.1.              Under 120 GB

1.3.3.2.              120 GB – 500GB

1.3.3.3.              500 GB – 1 TB

1.3.3.4.              1 TB and Above

1.3.4. By Form Factor

1.3.4.1.              5.25-inch

1.3.4.2.              3.5-inch

1.3.4.3.              2.5-inch

1.3.4.4.              1.8-inch

1.3.4.5.              Others

1.3.5. Market Segmentation by Technology

1.3.5.1.              SLC

1.3.5.2.              MLC Planar

1.3.5.3.              MLC 3D

1.3.5.4.              TLC Planar

1.3.5.5.              TLC 3D

1.3.6. Market Segmentation by End User

1.3.6.1.              Enterprise

1.3.6.1.1.                     Server Connected

1.3.6.1.2.                     Storage Connected

1.3.6.2.              Client

1.3.6.2.1.                     OEM

1.3.6.2.1.1.   PC Tablets

1.3.6.2.1.2.   Notebook PC

1.3.6.2.1.3.   Desktop PC

1.3.6.2.2.   Consumer

1.3.6.2.3.    Industrial / Consumer Electronics

1.4.    Analysis Period of the Study

1.5.    Data Reporting Unit

1.6.    Key Stakeholders

2.       Research Methodology

2.1.    Research Methodology

2.2.    Regional Split of Primary and Secondary Research

2.3.    Secondary Research

2.4.    Primary Research

2.4.1. Breakdown of Primary Research Respondents

2.4.2. By Region

2.4.3. By Industry Participants

2.4.4. Market Size Estimation

2.5.    Assumptions for the Study

2.6.    Market Breakdown and Data Triangulation

3.       Executive Summary

4.       Market Introduction

4.1.    Introduction

4.1.1. Overview by Type

4.1.2. Overview by Interface

4.1.3. Overview by Storage

4.1.4. Overview by Technology

4.1.5. Overview by End User

4.2.    Market Dynamics

4.2.1. Trends

4.2.2. Drivers

4.2.2.1.   Impact Analysis of Drivers

4.2.3. Restraints

4.2.3.1.  Impact Analysis of Restraints

4.2.4. Opportunities

4.3.    Value Chain Analysis

4.4.    Porter’s Five Forces Analysis

4.4.1. Bargaining Power of Supplier

4.4.2. Bargaining Power of Buyers

4.4.3. Threat of New Entrants

4.4.4. Threat of Substitute

4.4.5. Intensity of Rivalry

5.       Market Size and Forecast by Type

6.       Market Size and Forecast by Interface

7.       Market Size and Forecast by Storage

8.       Market Size and Forecast by Technology

9.       Market Size and Forecast by Geography

9.1.    North America

9.2.    Europe

9.3.    Asia-Pacific

9.4.    Middle-East & Africa

9.5.    Latin America

10.   Market Competitiveness

10.1.Strategic Development

10.2.Recent Activities of Major Players

11.   Company Profiles

12.   Appendix

12.1  Abbreviations