STORAGE SOLUTIONS
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off-line storage). A growing amount of this content
is available remotely and thus represents cloud
storage. Figure 3 shows our projections for archive
cloud storage (near-line, object and off-line) versus
local archives.
For many archiving and distribution applications
where content is relatively static, low cost/high
capacity SATA HDD storage, optical discs and tape-
based storage libraries continue to predominate.
Hard disk drives and increasingly, enterprise SSDs,
are used in high-performance storage applications,
such as video editing, where storage cost factors
must be combined with performance requirements.
For applications requiring rugged field use or fast
playback response flash memory either as cards or
solid-state drives (SSDs) is becoming more popular.
Figure 4 shows results from the 2017 survey on media
used in professional video cameras, where flash
memory is the majority of the storage media used
in professional video cameras.
From 2016 to 2022 entertainment and media
digital storage TAM (without archiving and preser-
vation) will increase by about 1.8X from $4.0 B to
$7.3 B. The growth in storage capacities will result
in a total media and entertainment storage revenue
growth of about 1.7 X between 2016 and 2022
(from $6.3 B to $11.1 B).
FIGURE 4: PERCENTAGE OF VARIOUS
RECORDING MEDIA IN
PROFESSIONAL VIDEO CAMERAS
Flash memory
59%
Hard disk drives
33%
Optical Disc
3%
Magnetic tape
5%
