14 DAY TRIAL // I already knew that the tablet and ultrabook market segments were having a good effect on solid-state drives. What I didn't know for sure was how big an effect that was.
Now I do, thanks to iSuppli, a market analyst branch of IHS.
Apparently, due to good sales of mobile devices, solid-state drive shipments tripled in the first quarter of 2013, compared to the same period of the year before, in those sectors at least.
Had full-featured notebooks used SSDs more (they still use HDDs mostly), the quota would have been even higher.
The iSuppli IHS report estimates the shipment level at 5.9 million for January-March.
Overall SSD sales didn't go up by as much, but it was still a huge jump, of 92%, to 11.5 million, all told.