Hybrid HDDs combine lower storage capacity costs close to those of HDDs with read and write performance that can be about 80% of that possible with the best client SSDs.
Dual drive configurations with SSDs and HDDs or hybrid HDDs could offer users a good compromise with performance and power usage approaching that of SSDs and capacity costs approaching that of HDDs.
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Adding capacity and dropping costs is a formula for an incendiary rise in information traffic.
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While the company has taken some steps to cut production capacity and reduce costs, further restructuring is needed to restore profits.
We invested in this company with a tax credit that allowed you to boost capacity and lower costs and hire hundreds of new workers.
Cloud services being hit with a lot of requests will require more capacity, which costs more, and the congestion-pricing model passes theses costs onto the consumer.
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This will give manufacturers the ability to dramatically increase capacity while reducing unit costs.
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Struggling travel group Thomas Cook has reported widening annual losses due to reduced capacity and higher fuel costs.
Instead of computers sitting unused, virtualization enables the usage of this unused capacity and reduces the costs of buying additional boxes.
Limitless fiber-optic capacity will slash transmission costs over the world's networks.
The new company will also benefit from a larger balance sheet, giving it greater capacity to shoulder the costs of long term projects such as building nuclear power plants.
In a further twist, as part of the investigation into Rio, Chinese authorities are said to have seized information which may provide insight into the mining firm's production costs and capacity.
As a result of those challenges, Whirlpool is moving to reduce costs and capacity, announcing it will cut more than 5, 000 jobs (approximately 10% of its workforce in North America and Italy), in part by closing a refrigerator manufacturing facility in Arkansas by the middle of 2012.
Consumers have held up fairly well, but with stagnating wages and rising costs, their capacity to bear the grunt will wear out, and that could have dire consequences for the already fragile economic recovery.
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Their increased capacity reduces collection trips, fuel costs and greenhouse gas emissions by 80%.
Babcock and Wilcox claim overnight costs per kilowatt of capacity for the mPower roughly on a par with those of big PWRs like the AP1000.
After collapsing to a mere handful of buyers in recent months in response to market jitters, managers say a broader base of AAA investors is necessary to bring down funding costs and expand deal capacity.
Nobody is going to build a manufacturing plant in America when gobs of capacity is shuttered and available, and costs are dramatically lower elsewhere with plentiful skill supply.
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However, in the current weak economic climate, firms with lots of spare capacity find it hard to pass on costs, so rising labour costs are more likely to squeeze profits than to push up inflation.
Exelon's Rowe estimates that electricity prices will increase by at least 15 cents per kilowatt-hour, due to upward pressure on the need for new capacity, fuel prices and capital and labor costs.
Houston-based Continental Airlines (nyse: CAL - news - people ) announced Thursday it would cut 3, 000 jobs and reduce capacity by 11% because of record fuel costs that have pushed the industry into its worst crisis since Sept. 11, 2001.
Some costs could be defrayed by using satellite capacity to spread local services around the world.
Obama released a statement citing various benefits of the package, from increasing capacity for renewable energy to lowering health-care costs.
They'll be pushed up by higher fuel input costs, the cost of renewing generating capacity and subsidies to renewables in some countries.
Most of the excess capacity is in Europe and North America, where costs are higher and sales growing more slowly than they are in Asia.
In his first sales pitch, Winnick was able to recoup half his costs by selling just 10% of his capacity.
The Nano, by comparison, costs the same, features half the storage capacity and has a smaller two-inch screen.
High medical costs compared with premiums have led to funding and capacity issues in some states, most notably California.
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These problems would not necessarily make it impossible to install 50 GWs of solar capacity by 2020, but it would likely dramatically inflate the costs of doing so.
It means SSE's Peterhead gas plant is operating at less than quarter its capacity, with the blame there placed on the high extra costs of accessing the grid from northern Scotland.
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