Fujitsu is eager to shed its loss-making hard-disk drive business, in order to focus on gaining ground against formidable rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard in information technology services consulting.
However, the new drive will be significantly slower when writing to the older 100MB disks -- because of the head design changes needed to increase per-disk capacity.
Fujitsu, for example, hopes to unload its loss-making hard-disk business, but it recently took full control of a joint-venture to sell computers as part of a push into computer-related services.
The center incorporates advanced video processing calibrated to the DCI (Digital Cinema Initiative) color standards recently adopted by most Hollywood studios and distributors, as well as removeable-hard-disk data storage to accommodate multiple DCI-standard motion picture titles ready for immediate playback.
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Ruminating about his failed affairs, he lives alone in Marseilles, comforted by a few ill-sorted friends, who are nastily stalked by a mobster baddie eager to locate Babette (and surprisingly ignorant when it comes to disk-copying).
Eventually, the only course for Iomega will be to license its disk technology to third-party manufacturers, as it is already starting to do with its drives.
Interrupting the reboot process only long enough to change the initial boot device in BIOS from CD-ROM to disk, I impatiently watched Linux boot, waiting for the login prompt to appear.
Previous-generation database machines were really primarily disk-based machines with a lot of memory to accelerate.
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For example, you may do initial backups to disk-based storage elsewhere in the data center, with further backups to tape.
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Sun is first releasing a new version of its Solaris operating system designed to integrate flash and traditional disk-drive storage, and in the next six months it plans to sell its own flash storage drives aimed at businesses.
One thing left for him to do: fix the high-end disk drive business, where the company used to think it was going to make all of its money.
Plus, users don't have to worry about toting around a floppy disk or flash drive--all they have to do is log on to pick up working on projects where they left off.
Evercore Partners analyst Kirk Materne this afternoon trimmed his EPS estimates for Microsoft for the next couple of quarters to reflect the current shortage of hard-disk drives that has resulted from the recent Thai floods, plus lower gross margin assumptions to reflect increased investment in services and online and a greater revenue contribution from the entertainment and devices segment.
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Those three dozen disk-drive startups began to run out of money and die, one by one.
Shares in Toshiba climbed 1.4% after the firm said it would sell its Thailand hard-disk-drive manufacturing subsidiary to U.S. peer Western Digital Corp.
With one touch, the user can transfer photos from the camera's insert to a Zip disk for long-term storage, or send them via e-mail.
The research firm now sees PC units up 5% in 2012, down from a previous forecast of 10.1%, reflecting not only the weak economy but also the impact of tight disk-drive supply due to the floods in Thailand.
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You can create a boot disk in Windows 95 using the same procedure, but the disk won't give you access to your CD-ROM drive, which is necessary if you have to reinstall Windows.
In 1956 Chrysler and RCA collaborated on the Highway Hi-Fi, an in-dash turntable that played up to an hour of music from each specially formatted 7-inch disk.
The disk-drive makers are moving to China and to Malaysia, the world's second largest manufacturer after Singapore.
Needham analyst Richard Kugele this morning raised his rating on Western Digital to Buy from Hold after the disk-drive maker late yesterday reported better-than-forecast results for its fiscal third quarter ended December 31.
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So if an organization decided to buy even more disk space to try and increase their performance, they actually end up over-purchasing and under-utilizing all of their storage capacity for miniscule gains.
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Setting the stage for further consolidation in Japan's electronics sector, Toshiba is in talks to buy Fujitsu 's hard-disk drive unit.
The photo shows the plane of the Milky Way, which is often described as looking like two fried eggs back-to-back, with a flat disk in the middle.
Until now, Montblanc's chronographs have featured traditional hour and minute hands on the main dial and smaller rotating disk sub-dials with stationary hands to measure elapsed minutes and seconds.
What we really have now is primarily a memory-based machine with a lot of disk to expand the capacity of it.
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In an interview with Forbes this morning, Seagate CEO Steve Luczo said the company is expecting the total addressable market for the disk-drive sector in the June quarter to be flat to down slightly from the March period, which he says is typical for the period.
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But how much better to be Western Digital Corporation, the number two disk-drive maker at the time?
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Currently, hard disk drives offer a more cost-efficient alternative to solid state drives, making them a more suitable option for developing and expanding cloud infrastructures, as capacity matters more than speed.
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