At 34 Million, SSDs Outpace Forecast in 2Q16 - Trendfocus

Trendfocus, Inc. has published this Executive Summary on NAND/SSD Information Service – CQ1 ’16 Quarterly Update (August 22, 2016).

CQ2 ’16 SSDs Outpace Forecast
Client Grows 9% Q/Q to 29.6 Million, Enterprise Tops 4 Million Units
All enterprise interfaces grow – PCIe crosses 0.200 million unit milestone

Abstracts:

Client SSDs grew to nearly 30 million units shipped, posting continued growth and rising attach rates in notebook. PCs SATA remains the dominant interface.
Client modules increased 6.4% to 12.9 million units, while drive form factor (DFF) still leads the client segment, with 16.7 million units shipped; SATA represented 78% of all client SSDs shipped with the balance as PCIe.
All three enterprise interfaces grew, highlighted by a sharp 25.6% sequential jump of PCIe to over 0.200 million units.
Of the 4.051 million enterprise SSD units shipped, enterprise SATA SSDs represented almost 80% of all enterprise, SSDs shipped, while SAS shipments of 0.608 million captured over 15% of the enterprise SSD market.
Capacity shipped for all SSDs reached almost 12.4EB, up 24.6% from the previous quarter.

Total SSD Supplier Market Share, by Supplier

CQ2 ’16 Total SSD Market: 33.688 Million Units