They're just as eager to earn profits and reinvest them for maximum return as any razor-blade manufacturer, software programmer or energy company.

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RLX's software balances the processing load among hundreds of blades and instantly shifts data and workload from a failing blade to a reserve unit.

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The LaCie Blade Runner is equipped with 10GB of complimentary Wuala Secure Cloud Storage and user-friendly backup software.

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