That made a 100-megabyte Zip disk a useful tool for backing up data and sharing files with other people.
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.
Figure 2 in the accompanying power point file shows historical storage areal density (AD) growth for HDDs (this is directly related to the amount of digital storage that can be put on a disk in a hard disk drive) from Q1 2000 through Q1 2011.
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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.
To everyone's surprise, including their own, the young architects won with a dramatic design of a great tilted disk, a very fast professional start that produced an extraordinary building 12 years later, in 2001.
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With five working days a week, an IT manager can assign each disk to a daily backup.
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The disk drive reads out a disk ID from the game disk.
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First, the professional installer had enabled automatic backup between the primary disk partition and a backup disk partition on the same physical disk.
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In January, another team of researchers reported evidence of vast streams of gas flowing across a gap in a disk of material around a young star.
Ting Xu, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and Thomas Russell, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, have created a technique that could, theoretically, pack a disk the size of a quarter with 10.5 terabits (more than 10 trillion bits) of data, the equivalent of 250 DVDs.
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.
PocketZip is a tiny spinning disk, and, no matter what the company says about its reliability, consumers will think that a spinning disk is going to skip when subjected to sudden motion.
"When you see a disk that's not symmetric, it's a good indication that something might be hiding or forming in the disk, " said Dr. Quanz.
Obie glanced up at the dusty brass disk holding a circle of twenty-five-watt bulbs.
We created a simple disk image with only a few critical applications out of the box installed to provide choice.
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Set aside about 45 minutes to defrag your hard disk, a task you should perform at least once a month.
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.
Turn it off and leave it off, it wears out the disk drive a lot faster if you have it engaged, just a word of warning.
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We hear you said, "The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk ... and with a tiny little screen, " and went on to slap it on using a crank as a power source where there's no electricity.
For a number of reasons the total storage capacity for a 5, 400 RPM disk can be higher than a 7, 200 RPM disk.
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Thus a 5, 400 RPM HDD can use the flash memory for speeding performance while providing as much as 30% higher storage capacity for a given number of active disk surfaces than a 7, 200 RPM drive.
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Finally the camera stores the compressed image file on anything from a flash memory card to a floppy disk for later downloading to a computer or printer.
"Sneakernet" is an old jargon term used to describe the act of having to carry a computer file on a floppy disk or other media from a machine in one room to another.
It consists of a disk with holes around its edge hanging horizontally from a cord, microns above another, similarly perforated plate.
After you configure your backup, Google zips your data into an archive that you can download and store on a hard disk under your bed or in a bank vault in Geneva.
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This can be just the result of the excess pressure placed on the nerve or it can also be caused by neck or back trauma, a herniated disk in the spine, or a mass (such as a tumor or infection).
Sitting in a chair at his locker wearing khakis and a long-sleeve shirt, Youkilis said he thinks the same bulge of a disk that caused him problems last year was "basically rubbing" a nerve, leading to discomfort on his right side.
While flash memory in a separate smaller capacity SSD module is playing a role in these new ultra-thin computers the introduction of hybrid hard disk drives with a flash cache inside the hard drive may plan a significant role as well.
"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.
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