SSD Shipments Down 18.4% Q/Q To 67.5 Million In 2Q24
StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, August 21st, 2024
While every other category declined, ePCle growth was driven by higher demand across all of its end markets
Overall SSD unit shipments decreased 18.4% Q/Q to 67.549 million, although capacity grew 4.1 % to 90.553EB.
Sluggish PC OEM and channel markets coupled with some inventory caused overall cSSD units to fall by 22.5% Q/Q to 54.869 million while capacity shipped dropped 21.6% to 38.101EB
Enterprise PCle units climbed once again, growing 19.7% Q/Q to 8.487 million, while capacity shipped achieved a 2nd consecutive record quarter, reaching 44.614EB, an impressive 46.2% increase Q/Q.
SAS SSD shipments declined again, by 10.1 % in units to 0.794 million with capacity also declining very slightly, by 0.5%, to 3.242EB.
Enterprise SATA followed SAS with declines in both units and exabytes - 3.399 million units and 4.595EB represented declines of 15.6% and 0.8%, respectively.
Total NAND bit shipments decreased for the 2nd quarter in a row, this time by 5.4% to 213.84EB.