It looks like 2012 could be a very big – if less profitable – year for the flash/solid-state storage industry, which should translate into good news for enterprise customers, and not-so-good news for disk vendors, at least until the summer. Expectations are for a glut in flash, and continued shortages in disk. For the second half of 2011, hard disk drives were predicted to account for 71% of the enterprise market, up 0.9% from the first half of the year., while SSDs were forecast to shoot up 61% to $ 1.35 billion from $ 843 million, according to IHS-iSuppli.
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