Will mechanical hard drive be replaced by SSD soon?

The shipment of Mechanical hard drive continue to plummet. It is only a matter of time before HDD are replaced by SSD.

It is an indisputable fact that the shipments of mechanical hard drives have continued to decline and user demand has plummeted.

A recent report from Storage Newsletter discussed the staggeringly proportional decline in HDD shipments in the second quarter of this year, showing that HDD shipments in the market continued to decline by 33% year over year.

Analysts attributed the decline in numbers to a lack of continued demand from customers.

Shipments of hard drives through the consumer and enterprise markets only accumulated 45 million units last quarter .

For comparison, HDD shipments peaked at 651 million units in 2010 and averaged 162 million units per quarter for the year.

Hardware site Tom’s Hardware points out that demand for HPC has continued to grow in the enterprise market, while cloud-based environments are inexpensive and consume minimal power, and bulky hard drives aren’t an advantage when compared to SSDs.

In addition, with the development of scientific progress and the more necessary needs of consumers to rely on digital space, HDD has become a backward product, and the growth demand of HDD in the commercial market is almost stagnant at present.

In the most recent report, 2.5-inch HDDs dropped 40 percent in a few quarters, amassing only 11 million units shipped.

The decline in shipments was described as a shift to “flash-based” storage options.