Sales of ssd disks increase 32% in 2016

When we recently commented on the 20% drop in sales of hard drives this year, we pointed out SSDs as one of the main culprits. Now with these new data on the table provided by TrendFocus, it could be said that we were absolutely right.

Over 30 million SSDs sold in three months

According to the study by TrendFocus, the sales of SSD solid disks increased by more than 32% in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2015. In total , more than 30 million SSD units were sold worldwide. In the first three months of 2016, the figures are overwhelming.

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The advantages of an SSD disk and its falling prices are making your outlay more and more tempting for PC users. The difference in data access speed compared to a mechanical hard disk is very noticeable, many users decide to install the operating system directly on these disks and leave the mechanical hard disk for multimedia data such as videos, movies, music, etc. The most common use for SSDs are for demanding operating system installation, applications and games. Today a 240GB disk can be obtained for approximately 60 euros and is a sufficient amount of space today to take advantage of it.

Samsung comfortably leads the solid disk market

In the territory of SSDs, Samsung is the one that commands 42% of the market share, followed by SanDisk with 12.8%, Lite-On 11.4% and Kingston fourth with 9.3%.

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TrensdFocus also plays with the total capacity of all SSDs that have been sold during the first 3 months of 2016, reaching the figure of 10 exabytes, in the same period of 2015 the figure reached 5.65 exabytes, an increase of 77 %. Forecasts indicate that sales of solid drives will continue to increase throughout the year.