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Error rates may increase, though, as storage density increases, because shrinking feature sizes for storage cells make the cells more susceptible to disturbances, and because increasing the number of states per cell increases the likelihood that a disturbance will change the state of a cell. Stronger error correcting codes may compensate for increased error rates, but may also may also increase the computational and storage overhead associated with encoding, storing, and decoding data.

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