Not everybody buys the perfect SSDs or the perfect HDDs for his or her techniques. EaseUS, a software program firm specializing in knowledge backup, restoration, and disk administration, has shared the outcomes from two storage surveys that reveal the most well liked manufacturers and capacities amongst customers and the way they use their drives.
For the EaseUS Disk Drives Stats 1 report, the corporate surveyed 207,797 customers over the three earlier months. The outcomes are primarily based on 754,142 drives consisting of 346,477 SSDs, 200,818 laborious drives, and 206,847 USB pen drives.
The primary development that EaseUS famous was that SSDs continued to realize recognition over laborious drives. In response to the info, SSD house owners accounted for 45.94% of drives, nearly double that of HDD customers with 26.62% participation. In the meantime, the opposite 27.43% corresponded to USB pen drives.
SATA and NVMe are the most well-liked interfaces, which is not any shock. However regardless of NVMe being sooner, SATA stays dominant with a 36.59% utilization over NVMe’s 17.64%. Curiously, 2.92% of the surveyed customers nonetheless used the legacy IDE interface. There are additionally 36.5% lumped collectively beneath the nebulous “different” class, nonetheless, which probably contains all of the USB drives.
The selection of capability varies considerably between SSD and laborious drive customers. For SSDs, the 256GB and 512GB capability vary was the popular selection for 28.96% of the customers, with the 128GB to 256GB vary got here in second at 26.3%. For HDDs, 40.7% of the person base used a 512GB to 1TB laborious drive, 20.93% had a tough drive between 256GB and 512GB in dimension, and solely 14.1% selected laborious drives between 1TB and 2TB capability. Once more, nonetheless, there’s a big 10.3% of SSD customers within the “different” class — for something lower than 64GB or greater than 1TB. Likewise, 24.3% of HDDs had been both lower than 256GB or greater than 2TB
The survey indicated the highest three SSD manufacturers had been Essential, Kingston, and Samsung. Probably the most prevalent drives embrace the Essential MX500 (500BB), Kingston A400 (240GB and 480GB), Samsung 980 Professional (1TB and 2TB), Samsung 970 Evo Plus (1TB), and Samsung 860 Evo (500GB). HDD house owners favored Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital, particularly the Seagate Barracuda, Toshiba DT01ACA100, and WD Blue, all three of their 1TB variants. Kingston and SanDisk led the survey when it comes to USB pen drives.
EaseUS introduced its findings for the second quarter of 2023 within the EaseUS Disk Drives Stats 2 report. The corporate examined 336,058 drives (205,889 SSDs and 130,169 laborious drives) from 207,797 customers. Roughly 36.81% of the person base has two drives of their techniques, whereas 28.02% follow a single drive. Solely a small share (3.56%) of customers have six or extra drives.
As anticipated, most individuals use and SSD as the first drive, and a secondary drive for storing knowledge. EaseUS found that 74.19% of its customers make use of an SSD as a main drive, and solely 25.81% nonetheless use a platter drive. SSDs ship considerably greater efficiency than a tough drive for on a regular basis duties, together with booting the OS and loading different functions.
House allocation on the first drive (C drive, as EaseUS calls it) differs a bit between SSD and laborious drive house owners. 33.17% of SSD house owners allocate between 128GB and 256GB for the first drive, whereas 31.38% of laborious drive house owners assign a capability between 256GB and 512GB. In the meantime, 57.41% use a GPT (GUID Partition Desk) for his or her drive, whereas the older MBR (Grasp Boot Report) disk sort makes up the remaining 42.59%.
The final a part of the survey clearly reveals that customers are nonetheless reluctant to improve to Home windows 11. Home windows 10, which got here out eight years in the past, continues to be the fan favourite. The outcomes confirmed a 51.31% attachment to Home windows 10, with one other 11.71% utilizing Home windows 10 64-bit (we suspect a lot of the first remains to be utilizing the 64-bit model, but it surely simply did not explicitly establish itself as such). By comparability, solely 28.26% of customers had been on Home windows 11. Home windows 7 and eight.1 principally fill out the rest, with a number of Home windows Server customers additionally current.
