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To: Sam who wrote (4064)

1/16/2019 9:07:42 AM

From: Sam

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This article is from almost a year ago. But it may prove useful in providing a baseline for when SSD revenues first surpassed HD revenues.

Who was the storage dollar daddy in 2017? S. S. D
But disk shipped 10X more exabytes than flash
By Chris Mellor 28 Feb 2018 at 17:08

Customer spending on SSDs finally ruled the storage roost in 2017 but vendors still shipped more than ten times as much disk capacity as flash.

IDC numbers for the fourth 2017 quarter and full year, tweaked by Wells Fargo senior analyst Aaron Rakers, revealed the revenue crossover between the two tech types:

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The crossover actually happened in the second 2017 quarter. Full year numbers look like this:

2017 Y-on-Y Change SSD $ HDD $ SSD EB HDD EB

$24,900,000,000	49%
$24,000,000,000	-6%
63.2	38%
640.5	12%

Rakers modelled the numbers to 2021 for both capacity and value:

continues at theregister.co.uk