Previous-generation database machines were really primarily disk-based machines with a lot of memory to accelerate.
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For example, you may do initial backups to disk-based storage elsewhere in the data center, with further backups to tape.
TiVo's disk-based VCR lets advertisers know which family members watched what shows.
The Lattus products provide globally distributed disk-based archives targeting multi-petabyte environments.
About six years ago, Fusion-io realized that the traditional disk-based storage approach would not work for the next generation applications, like social networking and the cloud.
As I wrote when I looked at Brookstone's hard disk-based SongCube last fall, there are many advantages to using a "sync and store" scenario for digital content devices on a home network.
The one big difference between spinning disk and Flash-based systems is spinning disk controller designers never worried about wearing disk out, so there is inefficiencies in how the applications are written.
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On the other hand, there is no shortage of third-party software that enable policy-based disk encryption on iPhones and iPads (including, full disclosure, the market-leading Afaria software offered by my employer, Sybase).
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Flash-based solid state disk (SSD) everywhere and anywhere defers or eliminates the need for additional high performance disk purchases to drive performance.
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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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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Simplified, higher density and more reliable servers make the hyperscale all-flash datacenter more efficient than datacenters based on solid state disk and hard disk systems.
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The Archos G9 Android-based tablet computers contain Momentus Thin (7 mm thick) hard disk drives from Seagate Technology rather than flash memory for long term storage.
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.
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