Adoption rates of solid-state disks (SSDs) in notebooks and desktops are on the rise across Europe, with 53 percent of notebooks sold through Western Europe’s largest distributors in Q2 2018 featuring SSDs compared to 41 percent in the same quarter a year ago.
Data published by IT market intelligence company CONTEXT states that for desktops the share of those with SSDs rose from 27 percent to 38 percent in Q2 2018.
Marie-Christine Pygott, senior analyst at CONTEXT, said that the increase in both categories was driven by a rise in volume sales of SSD-based systems coupled with a decline in products featuring traditional hard disks.
“SSD adoption rates were also up compared to Q1 2018 when 51 percent of notebooks and 35 percent of desktops were based on the newer storage technology.”
Adoption rates were lower in Central and Eastern Europe but there was still a steady rise. In the first two months of Q2 2018, 32 percent of notebooks sold in the region featured SSDs compared to 22 percent a year ago, while SSD desktops’ share rose from 21 percent to 28 percent.
