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By 2015, mobile hard disk drives with over a terabyte of memory, including several

hundred gigabytes of fl ash memory, should be available for use in portable products

such as life-logs and personal memory assistants. Likewise, mass storage devices for the

home will use hard disk drives with many terabytes of digital storage capacity. These

drives could be used in integrated home network storage systems or the home storage

utility outlined here. Optical discs could be available with terabyte storage capacity to

bring very high resolution content into the home. By 2015, we might even see new

solid state storage ...