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SSD Shipments Continued Growth Despite Shrinking PC Market: TRENDFOCUS 2nd Calendar Quarter AnalysisTRENDFOCUS recently published its updated Quarterly NAND/SSD report covering the NAND & SSD industries' performance in CQ2 '15. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150901005389/en/ In the SSD market, unit shipments increased, despite the fact that a good portion of the volume is tied to a weak notebook PC market. The two main factors contributing to the slight 2.9% Q-Q rise was the increase in DFF (drive form factor) client SSDs in the channel market, as well as an uptick in datacenter demand for SATA SSDs, driving a total of 23.859 million units. Total SSD capacity shipped increased by 13.3% Q-Q to 6.4 exabytes, with the overall average capacity increasing to 268 GB. Despite the rise in overall unit shipments, client modules declined, reflecting the contiued slow demand for notebook PCs. Enterprise SAS (News - Alert) SSDs declined 10% while PCIe SSDs in the enterprise segment remained under 100,000 units for the quarter. Enterprise SATA SSDs were the bright spot in the enterprise market, posting an increase of 48.6% Q-Q as datacenters resumed purchases of SSDs - a trend not seen in nearline HDDs during the quarter. Samsung (News - Alert) continues to dominate due to its successes in the client space - both from a unit and exabyte perspective - while Kingston showed once again that it can be a major player by focusing on the channel market. HGST's unit and exabyte share leads the SAS SSD market and Intel (News - Alert) continues to dominate the enterprise PCIe market for a second quarter in a row. Please contact TRENDFOCUS for more details regarding our market research and various services. About TRENDFOCUS TRENDFOCUS provides the data storage industry's most trusted market intelligence covering HDDs, NAND/SSDs, and the storage supply chain. Founded in 1993, the TRENDFOCUS method blends both "top down/bottom up" and 360° statistical analysis to provide clients with the exacting data sets needed to make complex decisions in today's environment. Visit us at www.trendfocus.com.
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