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For the last several years, the storage industry has been slowly headed towards a brick wall. Due to the extremely rapid pace that the hard drive industry has set for itself, we've seen 3.5" desktop hard drives increase in capacity by leaps and bounds in the past three years. We've seen "standard" system hard drives move in capacity from 80 GB to 160 GB to 250 GB to today's systems, many of which are loaded with 400 and 500 GB hard drives. Doubling, tripling, and quadrupling the amount of storage capacity while retaining the same physical hard drive base size year after year has been quite an engineering feet. However, the technologies which have been used for the last decade to increase storage capacity in hard drives have been running out of steam as of late.

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