IDC's Worldwide Solid State Drive Taxonomy, 2026

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. "As SSD technology continues to advance, it is becoming foundational across client devices, enterprise systems, cloud datacenters, edge environments, and next-generation AI infrastructure. This taxonomy offers a structured, standardized framework to help users navigate IDC's SSD research and better understand the evolving solid state storage landscape," said Jeff Janukowicz, research vice president and global lead for Semiconductors and Enabling Technologies at IDC.