Product Code: TRi-0090
AI's surge is transforming data center storage. HDD faces high costs and long lead times due to new tech hurdles, creating a significant supply gap. This opens a key opportunity for QLC Nearline SSDs. NAND suppliers are accelerating advanced process transitions to dominate the AI-driven high-capacity storage market, positioning Nearline SSDs as the future mainstream.
Key Highlights:
- The explosion of AI is fundamentally reshaping data center storage architecture.
- HDDs encounter high costs and extended lead times due to new HAMR technology's investment and production bottlenecks.
- This HDD supply constraint presents a critical market opening for QLC Nearline SSDs, previously at a cost disadvantage.
- NAND Flash suppliers are rapidly accelerating their transition to higher process nodes to produce large-capacity Nearline SSDs.
- Nearline SSDs offer superior performance, lower power consumption, and better Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), with their cost curve expected to decline further.
- Driven by AI, Nearline SSDs are projected to increasingly replace HDDs, becoming the mainstream storage solution for the AI era.
Table of Contents
1. Demand for Nearline SSDs Propel NAND Flash Suppliers to Migrate to More Advanced Processes so as to Capture Opportunities in AI Storage Market
- Lead Times/Prices/Mainstream Capacities of HDD & SSD
2. Price Competitions between HDD and SSD to Intensity in the Future amidst Slugfest of AI Storage Products
- Projection on Sales Bit of Nearline SSD and Enterprise SSD
3. SSD to Become Mainstream Storage Solution amidst AI Era as Effect of Replacement Ferments