Analysts excitedly build forecasts about the development of the market for solid-state disk .OCZ technology representatives, for example, recently stated that the classical HDD and SSD will be equaled in the price and volume in 2012. Currently, the present difference in the cost of storage for one byte of information between them can reach 30X .
In an interview with one of apple founders and the scientific leader of Fusion-IO company , Mr. Steve wozniak, shared his forecasts on the development of solid-state disk market. It should be noted that fusion-IO company specializes in the production of rapid SSD with PCI express interface, used in servers.
Mr. Steve is confident, that solid-state disks will not succeed in completely extruding HDD even in the server segment, where high operation speed and low SSD energy consumption justify their high price even now. Solid-state disks will be used in servers for the work with most frequently utilized data while HDD for data storage. This approach is simply justified economically, since HDD is cheaper than SSD .
In the mobile segment selection between SSD and HDD , now appears for 64 Gb. Disks with this capacity of both types have the comparable price, and HDD economize only with the volumes more than 64 Gb. With smaller needs for storage volume, it has sense to focus attention on SSD.