Posted on Friday, June 29th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
The industry analyst also predicts the penetration of Solid-State Drives (SSDs) in notebooks will reach 12 percent by the end of 2009. In contrast, penetration of Hybrid Hard Drives (HHD) in notebook PCs will reach 35 percent by the end of 2009.
SSDs are intended as replacements for conventional Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), using flash memory instead of traditional rotating media. HHDs employ flash memory in combination with HDDs to create a hybrid solution.
“SSDs and HHDs have a clear performance advantage compared to traditional HDDs,” said Krishna Chander, iSuppli senior analyst for storage research. “Although in the near term, their cost will remain a prohibitive factor for mass-market adoption of SSDs and HHDs, this cost gap will narrow during the coming years, leading to their wider usage.”
