Dual storage configurations using an SSD and a hard disk drive are becoming common in computers.
They report speeds of 110 metres a second, comfortably competitive with the speed of a hard disk.
And scientists can watch the genetic code being accessed like watching a computer reading a hard disk.
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X-box, with a graphical interface supposedly superior to Sony's, will also have a hard disk and Internet connection.
It's underpowered, has a too-tiny screen and needs a hard disk, Gates says.
That's significant because analyzing or manipulating data in memory is much faster than retrieving it from a hard disk.
One way that HDD companies can put more capacity in a hard disk drive is to add more disks and heads.
The "I Have a Hard Disk and I'm Not Afraid to Use It" award goes to the Sony PlayStation 3 .
The SanDisk Extreme SSD is more reliable and durable than a hard disk drive and is backed by SanDisk's reputation for quality.
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It involves giving television sets and other entertainment devices a network connection, a hard disk drive and the ability to connect to broadband Internet connections.
It has no mechanical moving parts, it uses less than a hundredth the power of a hard disk, and it can be made very small.
Apple Inc. ( AAPL) and Seagate Technologies ( STX), a hard disk drive company, are his top two holdings, and Dell ( DELL) is his tenth largest.
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After you configure your backup, Google zips your data into an archive that you can download and store on a hard disk under your bed or in a bank vault in Geneva.
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So his firm, SoftWide, devised a kiosk-based system that can store thousands of pieces of software on a hard disk, burning a disk only when a customer wants to buy a particular title.
As we approach the general availability of ultrabooks with the Windows 8 operating system it looks like the largest sales for ultra-thin computers will include a hard disk drive as well as flash memory.
Of course the total energy used by a hard disk drive depends upon the actual usage and power saving modes, and caching of data can reduce the energy used by a HDD in a computer system.
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In addition to a higher storage capacity than past LTO generations, LTO 5 also offers new architecture features such as the LTFS file system that turn magnetic tape into a directly addressable data source, like a hard disk drive.
With an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 8 GB memory, a hard disk capacity of up to 500GB, and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 GPU, this bad boy is available in Brown Luxe, with either chrome or silver accents.
The SanDisk Extreme SSD consumes 30 percent less power than a hard disk drive while generating less heat and noise, making it an ideal solution for notebook users who want to maximize their battery life while computing on the go.
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Pulling out the 15k RPM card this late in the game would usually be frowned upon, but in the case of NHK, its latest development to spin at 15, 000 revolutions per minute has nothing to do with a hard disk drive.
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Figure 2 in the accompanying power point file shows historical storage areal density (AD) growth for HDDs (this is directly related to the amount of digital storage that can be put on a disk in a hard disk drive) from Q1 2000 through Q1 2011.
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Perhaps the biggest gain may be in dual storage computers where a flash memory device is used for storing operating systems, software and frequently accessed content (and maybe even for write caching) while a hard disk drive provides much less expensive mass storage of user data.
"Although challenges to worldwide PC demand remain, such as the pace of global economic recovery and the on-going debt crisis in Western Europe, and even a hard disk drive supply shortage and cost increase, Lenovo remains optimistic that its growth momentum will continue, " it said in a statement.
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.
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.
VCRs, they are actually specialised computers with a huge hard disk on to which video signals can be saved.
The other has a 500GB hard disk and will be sold for roughly the price of the previous 320GB model.
Models configured with an ultra-fast SSD flash drive give you ultra-speed access to files around ten times faster than a standard hard disk drive.
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N91, includes iPod-style music playback from a tiny hard disk.
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