14 DAY TRIAL // You'd think that with SSD sales improving by almost 100% on-year in 2013, there would be a solid increase in overall sales for the storage industry, but that's not what happened.
Instead, what IHS iSuppli analysts found was that combined shipments worldwide for HDDs, SSDs and optical disk drives (ODDs) fell 5%.
HDDs shipments compacted, and so did ODDs, leading to a decline from 794 million in 2012 to 755 million in 2013.
SSDs went up by 82%, to 57 million units, but the HDD segment fell 7%, to 444.4 million, and the ODD sector slid down by 12%, to 253.5 million units.
As SSDs overtake the market share of the other two, their impact on the total state of the storage industry should rise as well. It'll still take a few years though.