Other vendors have also thrown their weight behind NAND Flash in recent months, notably Samsung and Sun, which announced a partnership to develop a single-cell NAND Flash memory device earlier this month.
The increase in SSD offerings is most likely attributed to the current data explosion, forcing users to seek increasingly innovative ways to handle their information. Just last July, for example, an IDC report predicted SSDs would soon become more ubiquitous and could see revenues skyrocket from $373 million in 2006 to $5.4 billion by 2011.
But that doesn't mean that SSD doesn't have its detractors and there are some major issues companies like Texas Memory Systems and STEC need to overcome. Besides being far more expensive than hard disk drives, SSDs are reportedly more prone to failure than HDDs. And the benefits of better performance may not translate to every application currently running in the enterprise.
To make matters worse, the SSDs haven't been adopted nearly as fast as expected so far this year, and some are wondering if storage managers really care about some of those performance benefits.
"Midway through 2008, despite all the hype, there has been little effect on demand for HDDs," states John Chen, senior director and SSD team leader at analyst firm Trendfocus. "But as flash costs fall and SSD designs improve, the battle between HDDs and SSDs for market leadership will last for years."
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