Prominent internet rights group the Electronic Frontiers Foundation (EFF) is taking the FBI to court over its handling of users' files, with a hearing set for 29 June.
With data growth rates averaging between 20% and 30% annually, many businesses are drowning under the weight of their own files and devoting huge resources to processing and handling them.
In its findings, Interpol concluded that Colombia did not conform to internationally recognised principles for handling electronic evidence but also that "no user files have been created, modified or deleted on any of the eight Farc computer exhibits following their seizure on 1 March 2008".
The magnetic disk backs up all files residing in the NAND, protecting the user from inevitable NAND wear and preserving it for the more hot data handling.