Actual storage capacity for a given form factor could depend upon other factors such as the number of disks and heads used in the drive.

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As such, the actual available capacity for data storage is less than what is listed on the products.

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It needs flexible logic circuitry (to do the actual computing), flexible memory or storage, a flexible power source, and a flexible display.

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Thus the actual growth of both enterprise flash and HDD storage capacity are not much different (and note that the HDD capacity shipments are measured in Exabytes while SSD capacity is in Petabytes).

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Greater portability, better mobile connectivity and expanded cloud storage are helping define the post-PC dominated world, and we are starting to see actual computing itself shift to the Cloud and only the user interface is needed to operate.

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