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.
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.
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.
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.
Goldman Sachs analyst James Covello this morning trimmed his EPS estimates for Intel to reflect the expected impact on the company from the restricted supply of hard disk-drives as a result of the severe flooding in Thailand.
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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.
That made a 100-megabyte Zip disk a useful tool for backing up data and sharing files with other people.
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.
Intel lowered its fourth-quarter guidance because of a worldwide disk-drive-supply shortage.
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.
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.
Previous-generation database machines were really primarily disk-based machines with a lot of memory to accelerate.
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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.
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.
Windows 1.0 only required a minimum of 256 kilobytes (KB), two double-sided floppy disk drives, and a graphics adapter card.
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.
The popular Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod comes with a 160-gigabyte hard disk.
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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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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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.
"Over time, an optical disc will be as much of an historical curiosity as a floppy disk, " said Michael Gartenberg, a tech-industry analyst with research firm Gartner Inc.
Insert a floppy disk, then open My Computer, right-click the A: icon, and select Format.
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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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.
Obie glanced up at the dusty brass disk holding a circle of twenty-five-watt bulbs.
The modules never come with a disk or CD-ROM, and there are no drivers to transfer or InstallShield wizard to run.
The huge success of disk-drive maker EMC covers up a rude fact.
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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