The phrase "ability to store data" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the capacity or functionality of a system, device, or individual to retain information.
Example: "The new software has an impressive ability to store data, making it easier for users to access their files."
Alternatives: "capacity to retain information" or "capability of data storage".
"With the same footprint, they will literally be able to triple or quadruple their ability to store data," he says.
Because of the advance of technology, storage becomes cheaper and cheaper year after year and when our ability to store data outpaces the expense of creating that data, we end up with things that are no longer held for short-term periods, they're held for long-term periods and then they're held for a longer term period.
This combines the high-density data storage of the DRAM chips that form the working memories of existing computers with an ability to store data even when the computer is switched off a trick that currently requires expensive limited-capacity chips known as SRAMS and flash memories.
Scanning probe-based memories have demonstrated their ability to store data at ultra-high densities, well in excess of 1 Tbit/sq.in.
The practical implication of this fact is that the NSA, and larger U.S. government, doesn't have the ability to store data on the scale that many previously feared.
But their go-everywhere nature and ability to store data and communicate over the wireless networks, plus the ever-increasing smarts of the chips inside them, were also going to make them smart enough to handle the kinds of transactions usually classified as "impulse purchases".
The senators also raised other privacy concerns, like the ability of third-party sites to store data about Facebook users indefinitely and the expanded sharing by Facebook of certain portions of its users profiles.
As part of the arrangement, Box will also offer its customers the ability to store their data on IBM's cloud, which will have — I checked with the firm — 46 data centers around the world by the end of the year.
The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
For Facebook, the ability to store users' data and use their names and images for commercial purposes is important as it seeks to make more money from the virtual interactions of friends.
The ability to store this data easily and then conduct arbitrary searches on top of it blended together into a compelling opportunity".
