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The Five Dimensions of Storage: Page 2 of 2

The good news for the storage industry is that many of these same questions were raised about other storage technologies such as solid state disks. Yet, through the hard work of many people and companies, SSDs are now showing up in a wide range of computers and storage systems. Once enough smart people know that something is possible, it seems only a matter of time before they figure out a way to make it work. Of course, then comes the hard part -- make it cheap enough so it is affordable for people or businesses to buy and use.

A 10-TB disk sounds like something that many folks would want. It could hold all of your best-loved movies or the entire catalog from your favorite musician. Or it could serve as an archive of your family's medical records. What role it might play in an enterprise storage infrastructure is hard to predict at the moment without knowing the answers to a bunch of other questions. But it makes one thing clear -- storage technology continues to advance and we haven't yet found the upper limit.

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