Overall SSD Shipments Decreased 6% Q/Q To 82.8 Million In 1Q24
StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, June 21st, 2024
This market report from Trendfocus, Inc. is an abstract of its NAND/SSD Information Service CQ1 '24 Quarterly Update - Executive Summary, May 30, 2024.
> Overall unit shipments decreased 6.2% Q/Q to 82.786 million, with capacity growing 2.0% to 86.988EB.
> Client module units fell by 10.5% while exabytes declined even more, by 12.1%, with shipments dropping to 64.874 units and 43.393EB, respectively.
> Enterprise PCle units climbed again, growing 31.6% Q/Q to 7.088 million, while capacity shipped also achieved substantial growth of 31.8% in the same time frame reaching 30.526EB, helped by several form factors and a variety of capacities.
> SAS SSD shipments contracted by 5.8% in units to 0.883 million but grew slightly, by 1.7%, in exabytes to 3.259.
> Enterprise SATA units increased by double-digits to 4.028 million; however, capacity shipped contracted by 6.3% as lower-capacity solutions benefitted from the uptick in demand.
> As expected, total NAND bit shipments decreased slightly, by 5.4%, dropping to 219.39EB shipped.