The installed base of HDD storage capacity is growing at a 57% cumulative annual growth rate (drive by the storage capacity of the shipped drives as well as the number of drives shipped).

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At no additional cost to customers, the Modbook Pro will now have an original Modbook Pro Sanshara-class 120GB high-performance SSD as internal storage in its base configuration, nearly doubling the previous specification.

ENGADGET: Baseline Modbook Pro gets its RAM, storage and screen sensitivity doubled, stays at $3,500

The Surface RT suffered the same issue when it launched late last year -- the 32GB base version only included 16GB of storage, while the 64GB version had 46GB available.

ENGADGET: 128GB Surface Pro ships with 83GB free, 64GB has only 23GB

Maybe you should temper your storage expectations a bit, as the base model actually only allots 23GB of that space for use.

ENGADGET: 128GB Surface Pro ships with 83GB free, 64GB has only 23GB

So GE is determined to come out with a battery system that will store energy, but the investment costs are enormous as it needs to develop a massive storage system for a huge global customer base, says Wlliam Schmitz, president and CEO of WindTamer (WNDT), a maker of wind power generators utilizing proprietary technology for elecrtric generation and energy management.

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One winner is Phison Electronics, a fabless flash storage device maker that has used its Taipei base to gain market share worldwide.

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So rather than advertise, they turned their small but loyal customer base into salespeople, giving away 250 megabytes of free storage in exchange for a referral.

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It includes a new workshop and storage facility near Houston's energy corridor and a new base at Villahermosa, Mexico.

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New storage systems are increasing using flash memory for system acceleration, such as faster transaction processing and data base searches.

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