Total Disk Storage Systems Market (in GB) has witnessed tremendous growth in the past making disk storage one of the fastest growing industry in the tech sector.

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Dell currently is the fourth largest player in the total disk storage systems market and had a revenue share of 11.4% in 1Q11, down from 12.7% during the same period last year.

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We expect this growth to continue for the next few years, as the firm maintains its lead in the worldwide disk storage systems market and continues to expand its storage software offerings.

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However, if the total disk storage systems market grows at a much slower rate due to lower demand for disk storage, there could be significant downside to our estimate for data storage firms like EMC and NetApp.

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While we estimate the total disk storage systems market (in gigabytes) to grow by as much as 40% the growth in sales is expected to be much lower as a result of reduction in price per GB.

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At the core of these enterprise storage systems are disk drives much like the one in your PC, but surrounded with considerable extra hardware and software to give them the security and easy management that big companies demand.

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Its products include integrated circuits that are used in disk drives, solid state drives, high-speed communications systems, computer servers, storage systems, and personal computers.

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"Solid state" storage systems, like flash memory, offer some clear advantages over the spinning-disk drives of the past.

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Samsung now will also increase its production volume of SSDs with densities over 500GBs for wider adoption of SSDs in computer systems, while leading the transition of main storage drives in the notebook market from hard disk drives (HDDs) to SSDs.

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