External hard drives are a good way of keeping transient data off your computer's core hard drive, which should give your operating system some extra room to do its job more efficiently.

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Example: All the major components of a computer, including the motherboard and hard drive, are imported.

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The Internet is poky by design--and there are hard chairs in the computer room to discourage work.

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Enough computer users are fed up with noisy fans and humming hard drives to fuel a whole subculture of folks who build their own silent machines.

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The song is built from a weepy, descending bass line that is answered by a high figure, which plays a clump of small, hard sounds that are like both live instruments and computer-generated signals.

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In these, Jessen's troops sample e-mail, lecture employees to be circumspect about what they put into mail and install procedures and software programs to make sure that the files computer users dump in the trash are really gone from their hard drives.

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Rare earth metals are a key component of products such as MRI scanners and computer hard drives.

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Other computer makers are now following suit with slim devices that forgo economical and capacious hard drives for slim solid state storage.

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If content or services are hard to find on a website viewed through a desktop computer, and it is 80% of the time, it will be even harder to find it on a small screen, with a compact navigation system and a lot of distractions.

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