Research and Markets: Solid State Drives (SSD) Markets and Applications - Annual Study - Forecast to 2016

November 18, 2011

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/db1800/solid_state_drives) has announced the addition of the "Solid State Drives (SSD) Markets and Applications - Annual Study" report to their offering.

This annual SSD study analyzes technology, markets and applications for SSDs used in enterprise, notebook and desktop computers as well as consumer electronic applications. It forecasts the evolution of the PC, Consumer and Enterprise markets for SSDs, as well as the technical and commercial challenges SSDs are facing: cost, capacity, controller type, reliability, density, temperature range and mechanical ruggedness. The annual report includes the SSD forecast to 2016.

This report analyzes the potential of the SSD Market, in conjunction with the Hard Disk Drive Market. The report also assesses future developments of the storage industry and quantifies the different aspects of market growth from 2010 through 2016. It takes into consideration the economic outlook, and technology changes underway; and the impact these changes will have on the storage industry in general, and on solid state technologies in particular. Because of the growing complexity and scope of the data storage industry and markets, there is a need to put the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the development trends into a broader perspective. Therefore, this report considers the technological, commercial, and application development aspects of the storage industry. In particular, it explores, in general terms, the evolution of storage needs and requirements in the computing, communications and consumer industries. Relevant primary data and information were collected from discussions with industry and company representatives. Secondary data and information have been obtained from public sources, such as company documents, press releases, annual reports and industry statistics, as well as from the existing Web-Feet Research database. Historic data have been crosschecked and correlated with industry statistics. Forecast data and their interpretation are based on analyses and assessments of Web-Feet Research.

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