SSD drive shipments have tripled over the last year

SSD drive shipments have tripled over the last year

GLOBAL SHIPMENTS of solid state disk (SSD) drives have more than tripled over the past year, a market tracker report from analytics firm IHS has revealed, thanks to their growing adoption within ultrathin PCs, ultrabooks and tablet devices.

Although a Gartner report released today said that desktop and laptop PC shipments have declined by almost 20 percent across Europe, IHS' report claimed that the mounting deployment of SSDs in PCs has meant the drives reached shipments of 5.9 million units in the first quarter of 2013.

IHS said that this is up more than threefold from the 1.9 million units shipped worldwide to ultrathin and ultrabook PCs during the same three month period in 2012, amounting to four million more shipments.

SSDs also made an impact in the tablet sector IHS said, with shipments hitting 1.6 million units, also tripling the figures from the same period last year where sales were recorded at just 542,000 units.

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