Retrieving and storing data from a hard-disk drive takes one million times longer than accessing it from server memory, a difference that can severely degrade application performance.
Intel lowered its fourth-quarter guidance because of a worldwide disk-drive-supply shortage.
Indeed, this bargain Zeos comes with a paltry half-megabyte memory and a 42-megabyte hard drive, and lacks a floppy disk drive for the new 3-inch disks.
Essentially a floppy drive on steroids, the inexpensive Zip stores 100 megabytes--or about 70 times the capacity of a standard floppy--on a single disk.
The oft-dreaded gefilte fish turns up as a super-fresh disk of wild halibut chunks, dressed elegantly with beet and horseradish tartare, tiny arugula leaves, and parsley vinaigrette.
If you're already running Windows 98 SE or Windows Me on a system with a 933-MHz or faster processor and a large-cache hard disk, Microsoft recommends you check with your PC vendor about availability of the patch.
That made a 100-megabyte Zip disk a useful tool for backing up data and sharing files with other people.
We test each drive with a Micron 433-MHz Celeron system equipped with 64MB of SDRAM, a 10GB hard disk, and a DVD-ROM drive.
The 4420 will also offer "random erase technology" that lets you use a CD-RW disc just like a floppy or hard disk -- adding or deleting individual files at any time.
The original Mac dumped the 5-inch disk for a 3.5-inch floppy, and the first iMac was one of the first desktops without a floppy disk drive.
Cable companies, racing to keep up, are installing a TiVo-like disk into their set-top boxes.
The popular Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod comes with a 160-gigabyte hard disk.
It's underpowered, has a too-tiny screen and needs a hard disk, Gates says.
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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Shares of Hutchinson Technology, a manufacturer of disk-drive suspension arms, are trading sharply higher after the company boosted its guidance on financial performance for the fiscal third quarter ending June 26.
He is critical of the UBS ETN, meanwhile, for basing itself on an index of 11 constituents, most of which are companies that make, among other things, a type of hard-disk drive currently in vogue.
Getting to that stage might mean combining self-assembly methods with lithography, or doing away with the head that reads the data-packed disk and instead creating a self-assembling solid-state system on the model of Flash memory storage used today.
The notebook's external storage options include a LS-120 SuperDisk drive (which also supports 3.5-inch floppy disks), a CD-ROM drive, a DVD ROM drive and hard disk drive options of up to 20G bytes.
HGST, part of Western Digital, has announced that it will make He-filled HDDs that can support a couple more disks in a 5 disk 3.5-inch HDD package.
The TV, DVR and External Storage or client non-compute applications are storage solutions designed for consumer electronic devices such as media recorders and disk drives used for external storage such as a portable external disk and network-attached storage.
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The modules never come with a disk or CD-ROM, and there are no drivers to transfer or InstallShield wizard to run.
But in the course of first copying the contents of the hard disk-a seemingly sensible precaution-they triggered the hidden program that irrevocably destroyed them.
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.
Previous-generation database machines were really primarily disk-based machines with a lot of memory to accelerate.
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How about eight-window simultaneous multi-display, an Opera-based web browser, DLNA, and a 3TB hard disk drive, 2TB for "time-shift" recording recording up to 26 hours of programs, up to eight channels simultaneously.
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Windows 1.0 only required a minimum of 256 kilobytes (KB), two double-sided floppy disk drives, and a graphics adapter card.
Two thousand years hence, Sherwood says hypothesized collections of Asteroidal materials congregating at the Earth-Sun L4 and L5 gravitational equilibrium points would make for building materials to construct a large rotating pancake disk capable of housing thousands of people in the comfort of a free-breathing atmosphere and some form of artificial gravity.
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The average road warrior wants a laptop loaded with megabytes of memory, a high-speed processor, a vivid color screen, a modem, a CD-ROM player, and plenty of disk space.
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