SSD Market in China to Surpass 44 Million Units by 2018 – Reportlinker.com

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Traditional HDDs are being replaced gradually with SSDs, which are more reliable and easy to use when compared with former. SDD facilitates rapid data transfer rate, longer run time and uses a flash memory instead of running a disk.

The growth in consumer electronic goods’ applications such as laptops (notebooks and ultrabooks), tablet PCs, desktop enabled PCs, server systems and smartphones are contributing to the growth of SSDs market.

According to the report, the market for SSD’s in China is expected to surpass 44 million units by 2018.

Korea-based Samsung Electronics is the leader in China’s SSD market followed by OCZ Technology and Intel Corp.

It has been witnessed that SATA based SSDs are most commonly used for laptops or notebooks, whereas SAS based SSDs are predominantly used for server hardware systems. On the other hand, introduction of mSATA PCIe based SSDs are being extensively used in tablet and desktop PCs. mSATA based SSDs’ growth has also contributed to laptop PCs market because of its compact size and cost-effective pricing.

In 2012, China’s SSD market has been dominated by SATA-based SSDs, where 2.5-inch uits with 128GB of storage type was in huge demand.