Market Segments

Notebooks

The portable computer market achieves a significant increase in benefits when incorporating SSDs into notebooks.

• Home user: These are people who use notebook as their primary PC and are looking for similar features that a desktop can provide. Home users prefer notebooks to desktops because they can use their computer in any room. Thus, battery life is important since people will not want to carry their DC power supply around with them. Since this user most likely be using the notebook on a daily basis, enhanced performance is also important. With the fast read speed of SSDs, it will provide noticeably faster OS and application loading.
• Students: Whether studying in the library, in the dorm room, or at a friend's place, students need a laptop that is portable and rugged. Students will benefit from the lightweight feel and the fact that they do not need to worry about losing information if they drop their laptop or while they are running around with it.
• Business User: Frequent fliers for business, these people need something that is ultra-portable and a long-lasting battery life. Notebooks that incorporate SSDs weigh less and consume less power.

Web Servers

Another application area is for web servers. The SSD has excellent sequential read transfer performance and a web server's job is to serve many small files very rapidly.

Military and Aerospace

The equipment used in the military and aerospace industry needs to be able to withstand harsh environments; thus these products need to be the utmost rugged and reliable. Example tolerances to environmental conditions include: 1) having large operating and non-operating ranges and 2) being able to withstand large amounts of shock and vibration.

1. Communication: Radar systems, command and control, designators (rangefinders)
2. Remote: Weather and environmental equipment that is left unattended to gather information
3. Vehicles: Aircrafts, helicopters, cargo/utility, UAV's, tanks

Medical Equipment

There are many types of medical equipment that needs to be durable and reliable. This ranges from machines that test and track and store data, to portable machines that move with the patient.

1. Defibrillators
2. Ultra-sound machines for fetal and maternal monitoring
3. Scanning equipment
4. Gas monitoring equipment (ie: anesthesia)
5. Heart monitoring equipment: ECG (electrocardiogram), ST/AR, etc…
6. Spirometry module equipment (to continuously measure respiration)
7. Continuous temperature equipment
8. Oxygen supplies and monitoring
9. Hemodynamic equipment (to continuously measure blood)

Casino Gaming

Electronic gaming requires a memory storage system. The data that needs to be stored is the game itself and the information on the wins/losses and cash outs. The logged wins/losses can be used by casinos to catch cheaters. Also, most casinos use machines that do not give cash/coin payouts; instead they print out vouchers.

1. Slot machines
2. Electronic black jack and keno
3. Multi-player/multi-denomination

Enthusiasts

Enthusiasts/high performance PC's will also be one of the first to replace the standard hard drive with an SSD to achieve a more snappy user experience since the OS loads more quickly and applications take less time to start.

Etc.. Industry

Any industrial products that require tolerance to extreme environmental conditions

1. ATM's
2. Parking machines
3. Ticket vending machines
4. Factory automated machines
5. POS terminals
6. Measuring products