Thirteen New SSDs at 2015 CES

Today we are publishing all news around solid-state technology.

Not including controllers and external devices, at least thirteen new SSDs were announced during the four days of the International Consumer Electronics Show last week in Las Vegas, NV.  

It’s now the most interesting show for these solid-state devices – but here mainly for consumers, not for enterprises – with the Flash Memory Summit each year in August in Santa Clara, CA.

Per comparison, only one new HDD was revealed at Las Vegas event.

These announcements demonstrate some five obvious trends:

1. In term of form factors, M.2/PCIe and 7mm 2.5-inch form factors with 6Gb SATA are dominating the market
2. About all the SSD makers will have a 1TB unit this year.
3. SSDs are definitively beating HDDs of the same size in capacity, maximum one being currently 500GB in a 2.5-inch/7mm high volume for the magnetic devices (but 750GB probably arriving in 2015), 1TB and more to come this year for SSDs.
4. Transfer rates largely above 500MB/s for 2.5-inch SSDs and 1.5GB/s for PCIe devices, one more overwhelming HDDs.
5. SSD’s MSRP is down to $0.4 per gigabyte and these prices will continue to decrease, faster than HDDs.

Also note a new trend by Toshiba: extremely small PCIe single package SSD, the size of a coin (16x20x1.65mm), below one gram, with a first unit at 128GB and 256GB, for light-weight mobile PCs.

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