Or these bags can be flown to disaster sites and used as on-the-ground storage reservoirs where water can be appropriately produced and treated to provide high-quality water (see the photo below).

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Some of these interfaces are based upon historical storage interfaces developed for hard disk drives (SATA and SAS) while some are being developed, more or less from the ground up, for flash memory storage devices.

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The improved performance in either direction is a useful boost to on-the-ground performance, as both AnandTech and Storage Review will tell you.

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Mr. Turner's open-plan studio takes up the ground floor, while a small kitchenette and bathroom, plus storage cupboards, are hidden behind sliding doors made from white-stained birch plywood.

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There's lots of storage space for sports equipment, and 150-square-foot wine rooms below both ground floors.

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As part of the work water storage areas will be created to channel excess water on to Enfield Golf Course and Montagu Recreation Ground, slowing the speed and volume of water travelling down the brook.

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Storage is a huge market with ever increasing implications, and one in which Dell is already gaining ground.

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Mr. STEINBERG: The ground operations are only to be used to try to capture those missile launchers, destroy the missile launchers and the storage sites, and not to change the political process in Lebanon.

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