SSD Units Up 11% to 91.8 Million in 4Q21

2021 total reaching 373.2 million, NAND at 597.8EB

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 16, 2022 at 2:01 pm

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This a short summary of NAND/SSD Information Service, CQ4’21 Quarterly Update, Executive Summary, published by Trendfocus, Inc. on February 18, 2022

CQ4’21 SSD Units Up 11% to 91.8 Million
2021 Units Total 373.2 Million, NAND at 597.8EB

Healthy annual SSD units growh despite ongoing component shortages – SSD exabytes raise 29%

CQ4’21 SSD market share, by supplier, units (in million), exabytes
Trendfocus Ssd 4q21

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During 2021, 44% more SSDs than HDDs were shipped and this trend will continue next years, but, on the opposite, for much less global capacity and average capacity (-80%).

	HDDs in 2021	SSDs in 2021
Units in million	259.0	373.2
Growth from 2020	-3%	12.2%
Total capacity	1,338EB	266.3EB
Growth from 2020	31.4%	29.0%
Average capacity per drive	713MB	5,166MB
Growth from 2020	31.8%	14.9%