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Re: External disk storage market rebounding

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On 07/03/2014 11:41, RS Wood wrote:
>  From the «Didn't notice; I use tape» department:
> Title: External disk storage market recovers from slump
> Author: IDGNS staff
> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 04:14:25 -0500
> Link: http://www.itworld.com/storage/408558/external-disk-storage-market-recovers-slump
>
> The market for external disk storage systems has recovered from a slump, with
> factory revenues up 2.4 percent to US$6.9 billion in the fourth quarter of
> 2013, according to an IDC study.

On the plus side (hopefully!) most of these external drives are being 
used to backup people's data on a regular basis.

On the minus side, a lot will probably end up just offloading files from 
the computer, rather than backing them up.

Alan

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External disk storage market rebounding RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-07 11:41 +0000
  Re: External disk storage market rebounding Alan Ralph <alan.ralph@gmail.com> - 2014-03-07 21:23 +0000

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