IDC Jeff Janukowicz projections of the SSD market

http://techpulse360.com/2009/08/13/forward-insights-challenges-idc-hockey-stick-ssd-sales-forecast/ For a change, research firms agreed to disagree in forecasting the emergence of the solid-state disk (SSD) drive market. At a panel hosted today at the Flash Memory Summit conference in Santa Clara, Calif., small technical research firm Forward Insights blasted its larger competitors (including IDC and Gartner) for their hockey-stick forecasts of the SSD market. To set the stage, IDC research manager in hard-disk drive (HDD) components and solid-state disk (SSD) drives Jeff Janukowicz said he expects the SSD market to reach $3 billion in sales next year, compare to $733 million in 2008 and less than a billion dollar this year. A hockey-stick-like growth that for Janukowicz will be mostly driven by enterprises adopting SSDs to improve the performance and lower the consumption of their data centres and by early-adopters in the PC market like gamers in the desktop segment or executives laptops.