The center incorporates advanced video processing calibrated to the DCI (Digital Cinema Initiative) color standards recently adopted by most Hollywood studios and distributors, as well as removeable-hard-disk data storage to accommodate multiple DCI-standard motion picture titles ready for immediate playback.
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Fujitsu is eager to shed its loss-making hard-disk drive business, in order to focus on gaining ground against formidable rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard in information technology services consulting.
Interrupting the reboot process only long enough to change the initial boot device in BIOS from CD-ROM to disk, I impatiently watched Linux boot, waiting for the login prompt to appear.
However, the new drive will be significantly slower when writing to the older 100MB disks -- because of the head design changes needed to increase per-disk capacity.
Eventually, the only course for Iomega will be to license its disk technology to third-party manufacturers, as it is already starting to do with its drives.
For example, you may do initial backups to disk-based storage elsewhere in the data center, with further backups to tape.
Ruminating about his failed affairs, he lives alone in Marseilles, comforted by a few ill-sorted friends, who are nastily stalked by a mobster baddie eager to locate Babette (and surprisingly ignorant when it comes to disk-copying).
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.
The photo shows the plane of the Milky Way, which is often described as looking like two fried eggs back-to-back, with a flat disk in the middle.
Time to buy disk-drive stocks?
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Sun is first releasing a new version of its Solaris operating system designed to integrate flash and traditional disk-drive storage, and in the next six months it plans to sell its own flash storage drives aimed at businesses.
One thing left for him to do: fix the high-end disk drive business, where the company used to think it was going to make all of its money.
Plus, users don't have to worry about toting around a floppy disk or flash drive--all they have to do is log on to pick up working on projects where they left off.
Previous-generation database machines were really primarily disk-based machines with a lot of memory to accelerate.
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Evercore Partners analyst Kirk Materne this afternoon trimmed his EPS estimates for Microsoft for the next couple of quarters to reflect the current shortage of hard-disk drives that has resulted from the recent Thai floods, plus lower gross margin assumptions to reflect increased investment in services and online and a greater revenue contribution from the entertainment and devices segment.
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Those three dozen disk-drive startups began to run out of money and die, one by one.
Shares in Toshiba climbed 1.4% after the firm said it would sell its Thailand hard-disk-drive manufacturing subsidiary to U.S. peer Western Digital Corp.
The research firm now sees PC units up 5% in 2012, down from a previous forecast of 10.1%, reflecting not only the weak economy but also the impact of tight disk-drive supply due to the floods in Thailand.
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The disk-drive makers are moving to China and to Malaysia, the world's second largest manufacturer after Singapore.
With one touch, the user can transfer photos from the camera's insert to a Zip disk for long-term storage, or send them via e-mail.
You can create a boot disk in Windows 95 using the same procedure, but the disk won't give you access to your CD-ROM drive, which is necessary if you have to reinstall Windows.
In 1956 Chrysler and RCA collaborated on the Highway Hi-Fi, an in-dash turntable that played up to an hour of music from each specially formatted 7-inch disk.
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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Until now, Montblanc's chronographs have featured traditional hour and minute hands on the main dial and smaller rotating disk sub-dials with stationary hands to measure elapsed minutes and seconds.
Needham analyst Richard Kugele this morning raised his rating on Western Digital to Buy from Hold after the disk-drive maker late yesterday reported better-than-forecast results for its fiscal third quarter ended December 31.
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So if an organization decided to buy even more disk space to try and increase their performance, they actually end up over-purchasing and under-utilizing all of their storage capacity for miniscule gains.
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Setting the stage for further consolidation in Japan's electronics sector, Toshiba is in talks to buy Fujitsu 's hard-disk drive unit.
In an interview with Forbes this morning, Seagate CEO Steve Luczo said the company is expecting the total addressable market for the disk-drive sector in the June quarter to be flat to down slightly from the March period, which he says is typical for the period.
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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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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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