IDC's Worldwide Solid State Drive Taxonomy, 2025

This IDC study provides an updated and comprehensive overview of the solid state drive (SSD) market, including definitions and segmentation by capacity, form factor, technology, and interface. It highlights the primary SSD market segments such as enterprise, client, and commercial. This taxonomy provides a framework for analyzing the worldwide SSD market and reflects the evolving SSD landscape, emphasizing the importance of solid state storage technologies in various sectors."SSDs continue to advance, playing a crucial role in client devices, traditional enterprises, cloud datacenters, edge solutions, and the evolving AI infrastructure. This taxonomy serves as a guideline for users to better understand IDC's SSD research and presents a standardized and detailed framework of the solid state storage market," Jeff Janukowicz, research vice president, Solid State Drives and Enabling Technologies at IDC.