The large picture: Solid-state drive shipments were by and large flat in the 2nd quarter of 2022 as the component shortage lingers. SSD shipments significantly outpaced those of traditional spinning hard drives, highlighting the importance of operation over sheer capacity. Samsung led the way there with about a quarter of all SSDs sold.

Co-ordinate to data from Trendfocus (via StorageNewsletter), the SSD market as a whole shipped 99.596 million units during the three-month period ending June 30, 2022. For comparison, shipments totaled 99.438 million units in the commencement quarter.

Collectively, 68.630EB of SSD storage capacity shipped last quarter.

Samsung led the way with 24.4 percent of all shipments followed past Western Digital at 18.8 pct and Kioxia (Toshiba) with 12.half-dozen percentage.

Breaking it downward further, we see that client SSDs were responsible for the majority of shipments with 86.86 1000000 units. A full 5.79 million enterprise SATA drives shipped during the quarter as well, alongside 1.ane million SAS SSDs and 5.84 meg enterprise PCIe drives.

Client SSD shipments correlate with PC shipment data recently shared by IDC, which noted that 83.614 million PCs shipped during the 2d quarter. Lenovo, HP and Dell led the fashion, in that guild, with shipments of twenty.005 1000000, xviii.594 million and 13.976 meg PCs, respectively.

In its difficult drive report last week, Trendfocus revealed that 67.37 million units had shipped in the second quarter. That's not near as many individual drives when compared to SSDs, just HDDs far outweigh SSDs in terms of sheer storage capacity at 349.52 exabytes.

Epitome credit Marc Pezin