Price Point at Which End-Users Would Consider Flash-Based
SSDs Relative to HDD Technology
At what price point relative to HDD technology do you believe your organization would consider
increased deployment of flash-based SSDs?
(Percent of respondents, N=422)
Vendor
40%
35%
35%
30%
25%
22%
Channel
22%
20%
15%
10%
10%
6%
4%
5%
1%
0%
We would
consider if flash
SSD was 50%+
more than the cost
of HDD
We would
consider if flash
SSD was 25% to
49% more than
the cost of HDD
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We would
consider if flash
SSD was 11% to
24% more than
the cost of HDD
We would
consider if flash
SSD was within
10% more than
the cost of HDD
End
User
We would
We would
No, we would not
consider if flash consider only if consider replacing
SSD was
flash SSD was less HDDs at any price
equivalent to the than the cost of
point
cost of HDD
HDD
Source: ESG 2008 Enterprise Storage Systems Survey, November 2008.