Solid state storage has become a permanent part of the storage hierarchy, improving the overall performance and reducing energy use in a growing number of storage-intensive applications and systems.

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At the CES show and in related hotel exhibits there were a number of storage companies showing the growth and development of consumer oriented storage technology.

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Seagate predicts that the number of storage products in client systems will double between 2010 and 2020 with SSDs in 80% of all commercial desktop and notebook computers and 20% of all consumer desktop and notebooks.

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