{"id":2145,"date":"2013-05-10T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2013-05-10T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T14:00:03","slug":"hard-drive-shipments-continue-to-slide-as-ssds-gain-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2013\/05\/10\/hard-drive-shipments-continue-to-slide-as-ssds-gain-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard drive shipments continue to slide as SSDs gain momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/52501-hard-drive-shipments-continue-to-slide-as-ssds-gain-momentum.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hard drive shipments continue to slide as SSDs gain momentum - TechSpot\" src=\"http:\/\/nccomputertech.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/samsung2084020pro.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just when it seemed the hard drive market had fully recovered from the devastating floods that hit Thailand in 2011, the venerable storage media has another threat on its hand: competition from solid state drives. Shipments of PC hard drives are forecasted to decline by eight percent in 2013 from 475.4 million units to just 436.9 million according to market analyst IHS iSuppi.<br \/>\nSSD shipments, on the other hand, are expected to climb 122 percent during the same period, from 31.1 million units a year ago to 68.9 million units by the end of this year. HDD revenue is expected to hit $26.4 billion in 2013, down from last year\u2019s record of $30.6 billion which was largely due to higher selling prices as a result of the aforementioned flooding.<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s more, the decline versus growth will continue next year and in the years ahead, iSuppli notes.<br \/>\nThe odds are stacked against the HDD industry as it is suffering the effects of a depressed market resulting from a weak global economy. Additionally, upgrades are not being made for desktop and notebook PCs while at the same time, replacement cycles are getting extended. To make matters worse, the industry is being cannibalized by mobile handsets and tablets \u2013 all of which utilize flash storage.<br \/>\nBy 2017, iSuppi believes that PC SSD revenue will come close to that of the PC HDD market: $22.6 billion versus $23.5 billion, respectively. It\u2019s worth pointing out that PC SSD revenue also includes the cache SSD segment which uses NAND flash alongside a traditional hard drive.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/52501-hard-drive-shipments-continue-to-slide-as-ssds-gain-momentum.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hard drive shipments continue to slide as SSDs gain momentum &#8211; TechSpot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when it seemed the hard drive market had fully recovered from the devastating floods that hit Thailand in 2011, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[458,471,1019,1021],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-technology","tag-hard-drive","tag-hdd","tag-ssd","tag-ssds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papNkV-yB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7990,"url":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2015\/04\/09\/pc-shipments-hit-a-six-year-low-as-xp-upgrades-slow-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":2145,"position":0},"title":"PC shipments hit a six-year low as XP upgrades slow down","author":"NCCT","date":"April 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A slowdown in Windows XP upgrades and the wait for Windows 10 sent worldwide PC shipments tumbling to a six-year low in the first quarter this year, according to IDC. 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