Increasing the capacity year on year, handsets demanding more resources year on year, providing more support for more handsets year on year, and doing all this with lower turnover and shrinking per user revenue.

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Providing this storage capacity with HDDs and with slower areal density growth than in the past will require more HDD components and a major investment in HDD component capital equipment.

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