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The AFA market totalled $2.658 billion in the quarter, down four percent year-on-year. All-flash storage represented 53.9 percent of the $4.98 billion external storage market, which declined 13 percent annually. Within that primary storage declined 15 percent annually, secondary storage was up 2 percent, while backup and recovery went down 27 percent.
The total external storage capacity shipped in the quarter went down 7 percent annually. Primary storage capacity declined 4 percent, secondary storage capacity decreased 7 percent with backup storage slumping 26 percent. Flash storage represented 21.5 percent of all storage capacity shipped, up strongly from the year-ago 15.6 percent.
Gartner said the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market totaled $2.03 billion, 2 percent lower than a year ago. Rakers produced an HCI supplier market share pie chart based on the Gartner numbers:
In 2014, Gartner released the very first Magic Quadrant for all-flash arrays, reporting that all-flash storage accounts for over 50% of the primary storage market (2021Q4). Now the evolving all-flash storage technologies are driving a larger all-flash storage market.
NVMe SSDs adopt the NVMe standard to offer twice the performance of traditional SAS SSDs. Equally, NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) is an enhanced protocol employed by SSDs to provide sub-ms latency for storage networks. Enabling improved performance with every generation, all-flash storage is perfect for real-time ultra-low latency scenarios such as transaction systems.
The global wear-leveling technology uses algorithms to evenly write data to cells of all SSDs in the storage system, greatly extending the SSD service life and enabling enterprises to use all-flash storage in core service scenarios.
NAND cells are the core component of enterprise-level SSDs, and determine the cost of SSDs. Most mainstream vendors now adopt NAND cells with 176 layers, and have released the 200-layer (nearly double that of 2018) design roadmap.
In addition to prioritizing stacking layers, triple-level cells (TLCs) are becoming a mainstream choice for enterprise-level SSDs, which has given rise to QLC SSDs. One example is the PLC technology released by Toshiba at the Flash Memory Summit 2019. With this tech, every cell of PLC stores five electrons, making it a cheaper option than TLC/QLC but with a shorter cell life. This trend of optimized enterprise-level PLC SSDs will help further reduce the purchase costs of flash storage.
A combination of many stacking layers with TLC/QLC/PLC can significantly reduce the price of a single SSD. IDC predicts that by 2025, the cost per unit of SSD capacity will be lower than 10K RPM HDDs and higher than large capacity HDDs used for cold data storage.
Breakthroughs in cell technology and PCIe 5.0 are improving the capacity of SSDs, with many enterprises now adopting 15.36 TB SSDs or even 31 TB SSDs. Thanks to lower procurement costs, large-capacity SSDs will help develop storage environments in data centers.
Digital transformation is the cause of huge data growth and service pressure. When making their storage construction plans, enterprises should evaluate the current and future IT system requirements in advance. Then, they can ensure a premium experience and strategically approach the new round of all-flash storage competition among vendors.
HDDs are common in many enterprise storage environments, but most are approaching the end of the warranty period. Enterprises that are undergoing digital transformation urgently need better, more performant storage devices.
Data is the core of digital transformation. Data center consolidation helps gather data scattered on many devices to minimal devices. This reduces purchase, maintenance, management, and power consumption costs, and facilitates data value mining and enables service growth.
All-flash storage systems that run on large-capacity SSDs and dedupe and compression technologies are the equivalent of 5 to 10 HDD storage systems. This huge benefit makes it an obvious choice to migrate services from several HDD storage solutions to a single all-flash storage, and in turn supercharge the efficiency of data centers.
According to Gartner, solid-state drives (SSDs) have surpassed hard disk drives (HDDs) in market share and shipments since 2022. The implementation of mass unstructured data into production decision-making systems signals the new era of all-flash storage has arrived.
TrendsGlobal shipments of SSDs far exceeds that of HDDs
In 2022, SSDs held over double the market share (at 65%) and shipments of HDDs, illustrating that enterprises are embracing all-flash storage.
Figure 1: SSD market share and shipment proportion
Higher-performance all-flash storage significantly improves enterprise efficiency and service experience
SSDs far outperform HDDs in storage performance. A single SSD has thousands of times higher IOPS than an HDD, and can deliver millisecond- or even microsecond-level latency as well as high throughput. These characteristics make SSDs more suitable for the high-requirement scenarios associated with emerging services.
As data volumes increase sharply, enterprises will find it difficult to complete scheduled backup during backup windows (usually at night), even if average performance is required. Compared with HDD-based backup systems, all-flash backup storage systems can deliver double the backup performance and a four-fold higher recovery performance. In the past, backup systems mainly used HDDs to store cold data. Now these systems are gradually switching to all-flash backup storage for quicker backup and recovery.
All-flash storage has an obvious advantage in TCO over HDD storage
A higher number of cell layers, quad-level cells (QLCs), and penta-level cells (PLCs) will not only drastically reduce the price of a single SSD, but also cause storage costs at the same physical capacity to continuously decline.
NAND cells are a core component of enterprise-level SSDs, and often determine the cost of SSDs. QLCs and extra cell layers in 3D NAND are driving a steady decline in the equipment costs of all-flash storage. Most mainstream vendors now mass produce 176-layer 3D NAND cells, and multiple 200-layer design roadmaps have been released, nearly doubling the layers we saw in 2018. In addition to prioritizing stacking layers, triple-level cells (TLCs) are becoming a mainstream choice for enterprise-level SSDs, which have given rise to QLC SSDs.
Data reduction technologies for SSDs are evolving rapidly, driving down the effective capacity costs
In typical unstructured data scenarios like satellite remote sensing, data reduction ratios can reach 2:1. For autonomous driving and PACS imaging scenarios, the ratios reach 1.5:1 and 3:1, respectively. Data reduction technologies have reduced the purchase cost of all-flash storage considerably. In backup scenarios, all-flash backup storage also provides a 50% higher data reduction ratio than benchmark HDD backup storage thanks to global deduplication, similarity-based inline deduplication, and semantic-level deduplication technologies.
Large-capacity SSDs help continuously decrease equipment room footprints and the energy consumption of data centers
In the next two to three years, the capacity of a single SSD will be 1.5 to 2 times higher than that of an HDD, or potentially even more, with comparable power consumption. Therefore, large-capacity SSDs are critical for enterprise data centers to reduce the energy needed. Furthermore, SSDs are more reliable than HDDs. The 5-year return repair rate of SSDs is only 1.75%, four times lower than HDDs.
To sum up, as SSDs help enterprises reduce their CAPEX, footprint, and power consumption, they have become an alternative for replacing HDDs in high-performance production and transaction systems. In addition, SSDs can also be used to store warm and cold data such as backup data and mass unstructured data. As a result, the TCO for all-flash backup storage over a five-year period is 50% to 60% lower than that of benchmark HDD backup storage. In terms of scale-out storage designed for mass unstructured data, an SSD can be used to replace an HDD and offer the same available capacity. Notably, the TCO of SSD-based scale-out storage and HDD-based models will remain the same over a five-year timeframe.
Figure 2: Maximum capacity of a single HDD or SSD
Suggestions
If a problem occurs in the file system, run the format flash: command to format the file system. (After the command is run, all files and directories in the specified storage medium will be cleared and cannot be restored. Therefore, exercise caution when using this command. After the file system is formatted, use the BootROM menu to upload the file again.)
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