In 2020, the SSD represented a larger market share than the HDD!

2020 was a pivotal year for the PC storage market. Indeed, last year, SSD market share surpassed hard disk drive market share with more units shipped. A first in the world of storage and it must be said that the “Solid State Drive” has serious arguments for it.

2020: a pivotal year, more SSDs shipped than HDDs!

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For example, according to the Trendfocus study, last year 260 million hard drives were shipped compared to 333 million SSDs. In spite of a number of shipments much higher than the HDD, the average capacity of the SSD is only about 670 GB against 4 TB for the hard disk! These figures are all the more staggering if we take the total capacity of each medium. This then represents 207 Eo (1 Exabyte = 1 000 000 of To) whereas it exceeds the Zo (Zettabyte). For information, 1 Zo represents one billion To.

In terms of growth, we find ourselves with an SSD market showing a +20.8% increase year on year (2019 to 2020). For its part, the hard drive market is regressing by 18% while its capacity is still increasing with a nice +13%. Nevertheless, this increase in capacity is not as significant as that of the SSD, which shows +50.4%. This is linked to technologies that are constantly evolving in order to add more and more GB to our storage media.

Finally, this evolution is understandable since, even with a price per GB higher than the HDD, this media offers clearly reduced latencies. Very practical to reduce the loading time on Cyberpunk 2077 or booting your PC. A not negligible comfort!