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SAS SSD market size - as interpreted by Micron Editor:- September 3, 2015 - If you're interested in the possible size and direction of the SAS SSD market - here's some data supplied to me today by Micron.



This was in response to some questions I asked yesterday about a growth figure "59%" which they had quoted in a press release (in August) about their first new SAS SSDs developed as part of their collaboration agreement with Seagate. SAS SSD market - a view based on Micron's marketing assessments of various data sources revised in August 2015 Metric 2015 2019 CAGR Revenue ($M) 1,973 3,730 17% Gigabytes (M ) 1,828 11,700 59% Units (M) 2.4 5.1 21% Memory companies like Micron create, suck in and analyze thousands of analyst hours of raw and structured statistics about components and drives. And although - just as for anyone else - the fine details of such projections and interpretations can turn out to be wrong - it's nevertheless very helpful to understand some of the publicly viewable raw data which drives the thinking behind related product plans.

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how fast can your SSD run backwards? SSDs are complex devices and there's a lot of mysterious behavior which isn't fully revealed by benchmarks, datasheets and whitepapers.



Underlying all the important aspects of SSD behavior are asymmetries which arise from the intrinsic technologies and architecture inside the SSD. Which symmetries are most important in an SSD?



That depends on your application. ...click to read the article

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Today - if you're in a big company in a traditional market - and hoping to do something equally big in the SSD market - then $1 billion may not be enough - but $5 billion may be too much. VCs & SSDs







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If you think you already know SAS because you know SATA and traditional SCSI then think again. Serial Attached SCSI - Delivering Flexibility to the Data Center (2004)







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How will 2.5" PCIe SSDs impact the business of SAS SSD makers? 2.5" PCIe SSDs







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Although 3.5 inch form factor SSDs are a niche market today- historically this form factor revealed a lot about the different types of application for high performance storage drives in legacy servers.



In the 3.5" package we used to find hard disks, hybrid drives, flash based SSDs and even RAM SSDs competing for slots, often with exactly the same interfaces. the 3.5" SSD guide







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$/TBW sounds initially like a plausible SSD cost evaluation metric - but it breaks down at the boundary analysis where it hits RAM SSDs - at which point it can give you the wrong answer.



There are many other misleading metrics like this in the SSD cost evaluation literature. And you'd be surprised how many of them originate from leading SSD companies. Clarifying SSD Pricing - where does all the money go?







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Going back to where I started with FITs at the SSD component level versus fault tolerance at the SSD system level. I realized this was due to the different perspective of looking at an SSD as an electronic component compared to an SSD as a data systems device. FITs, reliability and abstraction levels in SSDs







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