Samsung Was The Clear Leader In SSD Shipments Last Year

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Samsung is the clear leader in the SSD storage market according to new industry statistics published by IHS (via ZDNet). Last year 34 per cent of all SSDs sold were Samsung branded units. The South Korean electronics giant soundly beat second place Intel by generating twice the revenue from its SSD sales: it brought in $3.99 billion, compared to Intel's $1.99 billion SSD revenue.

 

 

The use of cutting edge technology in its products also helps with the popularity of the brand. At the end of 2014 Samsung brought out the first consumer 3D V-NAND SSD drives, which feature vertically stacked flash memory providing greater capacities without significant device size increase. At the beginning of this year it introduced M.2 form factor SSDs offering 30 per cent faster data transfers and 50 per cent better energy efficiency than the previous generation.

 

 

IHS has made some predictions about what lies ahead for the SSD industry, as you can see in the chart above (2015e and 2016e). The SSD market is expected to grow moderately over the next couple of years from $11.58 billion last year to $14.13 billion in 2016. Meanwhile the market shares of the top five players, Samsung, Intel, Sandisk, Micron and Toshiba, are predicted to hardly flinch.

 

As long as they keep doing what they're doing I think Samsung will cement themselves as the predominance in the SSD market.

[minibois]

Not surprising, their SSD's are pretty darn good.

But you can see 2 other good SSD companies, behind them. 

Intel of course and Micron (Crucial)

 

I hope Samsung will keep doing what they do

[Sauron]

As long as they're good

 

didn't even know seagate made ssds...

[That Norwegian Guy]

Slightly off-topic, but who supplies controllers and flash to Plextor, AData and Mushkin? I always assumed they made one or the other themselves, but it's impossible that their quite good SSDs wouldn't be on the list at all unless they were complete rebrands.

 

Edit: I guess AData might be owned by Micron

[AxelRantila]

I'm super happy with my Samsung SSDs (A 830-something in my laptop and a 850 Pro in my desktop)

[Doobeedoo]

Have 850 PRO and it's great

[Sakkura]

Slightly off-topic, but who supplies controllers and flash to Plextor, AData and Mushkin? I always assumed they made one or the other themselves, but it's impossible that their quite good SSDs wouldn't be on the list at all unless they were complete rebrands.

 

Edit: I guess AData might be owned by Micron

 

Plextor uses Marvell controllers. Mushkin's been on the Sandforce train a lot, but I know their Reactor SSD has a Silicon Motion controller. Adata's running Marvell and Silicon Motion.

[The_Strict_Nein]

Planning on getting a 512 class 850 Evo when the price is good.

[Thony]

Their SSDs are good performers for less than what Intel asks.

[SurvivorNVL]

Still waiting on ADATA's SX930 2tb ssd.  But--you can never go wrong with Samsung.  If it can reach a petabyte, it can dodge a ball.

[Pie-jacker875]

their SSD's are pretty darn good.

for a few months, anyway.

[Metallica]

Samsung ssd's are pretty nice.

[Sakkura]

Still waiting on ADATA's SX930 2tb ssd.  But--you can never go wrong with Samsung.  If it can reach a petabyte, it can dodge a ball.

 

You can (sort of) go wrong with a Samsung 840 or 840 Evo.

[Lord Baal]

for a few months, anyway.

lol That only effected one model and they're still working on a solution. Not that I've even noticed any slow down on the one 250gb 840evo but that's probably because it only has windows OS on it and nothing else pc still boots to windows desktop in about 2 seconds or less much faster then I can actually touch the button and sit down lol

[jbslayer]

I love my Samsung SSD's. I bought a 250gb 850 evo a couple weeks ago to put in raid 0 config with my old 250gb 840. I got my OS and my most used programs/games on them and I couldn't be any happier.

[Earache]

Two of my four 840 EVO's had to be RMA'd. That's a headache in itself, but now you have to run the restore tool on them so they don't run slow in the future.

 

Worst SSD's ever..

[Deli]

Where can I buy SM951 in Europe, Samsung??