PCIe SSDs Will Overtake SATA in 2019
A current report from Digitimes claims that PCIe SSDs may lastly overtake SATA SSD shipments in 2019. Unit costs for 512GB PCIe SSDs have supposedly fallen 11% sequentially, all the way down to a worth of $55 in Q1 2019, whereas SATA SSD costs solely dropped 9%. The worth hole between the totally different SSDs was round 30% in 2018, and in keeping with the publication’s market sources, that hole is barely going to shrink as time goes on.
Meanwhile, because of the quickly falling costs of NAND flash reminiscence chips, whole SSD shipments are anticipated to rise dramatically. Digitimes expects shipments to extend “20-25%” in 2019, whereas a separate report claims that modifications in enterprise market shipments could possibly be much more dramatic. Relatively low costs for prime efficiency drives with capacities of as much as 16TB are apparently tempting many firms away from HDDs. Meanwhile, laptop computer makers are beginning to ship lower-cost gadgets with SSDs by default, and in keeping with PCPartPicker’s newest charts, retail costs for standalone shopper drives have been dropping as nicely. Overall, it appears like 2019 will likely be an amazing 12 months for anybody who’s searching for extra speedy storage, however the huge flash producer’s efforts to sluggish manufacturing may cease the tumbling costs by 2020.
Falling common promoting costs for shopper Gen 3.0×2 PCIe SSDs fitted in notebooks will speed up the adoption of such SSDs by OEMs. This, coupled with demand for ever-higher storage capability and velocity to help cloud computing, 5G and autonomous driving purposes, will additional stimulate market demand for PCIe SSDs and encourage model distributors to gear up manufacturing of such profitable storage gadgets and associated chips, the sources indicated. For occasion, Taiwan-based IC designers Silicon Motion Technology, Phison Electronics, and Silicon Integrated Systems are racing to roll out enhanced model of PCI SSD controller chips, whereas main model distributors comparable to Kingston Technology, Adata Technology, Transcend Information, Seagate and Micron have additionally listed PCIe SSDs as their mainstream product strains.
