Cache SSD Shipments Expected to Explode (INTC) (OCZ)
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OCZ Technology (Nasdaq: OCZ) is moving higher in afternoon action Thursday following research from IHS saying cache SSD shipments will explode, driven by Intel's (Nasdaq: INTC) Ultrabook initiative.
IHS sees shipments jumping a hundredfold by the end of 2015. "Fueled by rising sales of ultrabooks, shipments of cache SSD units in 2012 are projected to reach 25.7 million units, up from 881,000 units in 2011 when the technology first appeared", according to an IHS iSuppli Storage Space Market Brief.
A cache SSD looks like a regular solid state drive made up entirely of NAND flash, IHS explains. However, a cache SSD is not an independent storage drive and must run alongside a separate hard drive. Cache SSDs make PCs more responsive, allowing faster boot-up times than hard disk drives.
The mention of OCZ in the research was not related to its cache SSD offerings, but OCZ does have cache SSD. Here's what they said: "Cache SSDs are also less expensive than solid state drives, making them a more economical means to enhance system performance than by the wholesale replacement of hard disk drives with solid state drives. For instance, the Vertex 2 SSD from California-based OCZ Technology Group with 120 gigabytes costs about $160—the same price as Intel’s 311 Series cache SSD paired with a 500-gigabyte hard disk drive, suggestive of the kind of appeal that cache SSD solutions might offer for today’s price-conscious consumers."
IHS sees shipments jumping a hundredfold by the end of 2015. "Fueled by rising sales of ultrabooks, shipments of cache SSD units in 2012 are projected to reach 25.7 million units, up from 881,000 units in 2011 when the technology first appeared", according to an IHS iSuppli Storage Space Market Brief.
A cache SSD looks like a regular solid state drive made up entirely of NAND flash, IHS explains. However, a cache SSD is not an independent storage drive and must run alongside a separate hard drive. Cache SSDs make PCs more responsive, allowing faster boot-up times than hard disk drives.
The mention of OCZ in the research was not related to its cache SSD offerings, but OCZ does have cache SSD. Here's what they said: "Cache SSDs are also less expensive than solid state drives, making them a more economical means to enhance system performance than by the wholesale replacement of hard disk drives with solid state drives. For instance, the Vertex 2 SSD from California-based OCZ Technology Group with 120 gigabytes costs about $160—the same price as Intel’s 311 Series cache SSD paired with a 500-gigabyte hard disk drive, suggestive of the kind of appeal that cache SSD solutions might offer for today’s price-conscious consumers."
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