Replacement and repair of this equipment should provide at least a short term revenue opportunity for companies such as KLA-Tencor, Flexstar, Teradyne and Xyratex as well as a host of other component and hard disk drive assembly and test equipment companies .
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Boasting solid state drive (SSD) like speed and hard disk drive capacity, the new Seagate Laptop and Laptop Thin SSHDs are the most affordable way to increase your laptop performance.
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The SanDisk Extreme SSD is more reliable and durable than a hard disk drive and is backed by SanDisk's reputation for quality.
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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.
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.
The company said that while its own component and disk drive factories in Thailand have not been directly affected by flooding, its ability to manufacture hard disk drives has been impacted due to external component supply constraints, as it has disclosed previously.
The stronger-than-expected PC sales data also bodes well for the March quarter results from both Microsoft and Intel, and for the disk-drive makers Seagate and Western Digital.
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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.
Both Dell and HP have downbeat expectations for the quarter, and disk-drive maker Seagate has projected flat sequential growth for the quarter.
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It involves giving television sets and other entertainment devices a network connection, a hard disk drive and the ability to connect to broadband Internet connections.
"Although challenges to worldwide PC demand remain, such as the pace of global economic recovery and the on-going debt crisis in Western Europe, and even a hard disk drive supply shortage and cost increase, Lenovo remains optimistic that its growth momentum will continue, " it said in a statement.
Computer DVD devices "may never completely replace the disk drive and floppy disks because access time will always be slower on DVD, " he says.
Rip open a Cisco switch, an Apple iPod, an Xbox 360 or any big corporate disk drive and you'll find a Marvell chip inside.
This last week saw some interesting announcements representing the implementation of technologies that will enhance hard disk drive and flash memory technology in 2013 and beyond.
Some of the changes involved in the transformation include exiting its PC and hard disk drive businesses in time for the dramatic slow-down that would take place in those industries.
As the hard disk drive and drive component companies start to get back into their factories to access the damage there will undoubtedly be a lot of facility cleanup and repair and likely replacement of some expensive capital equipment particularly when this equipment was on the first floor of a flooded building.
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The trend has hurt all of the players in the PC food chain, including not just Dell and HP, but also Microsoft, Intel, the disk-drive companies and others.
Dual storage configurations using an SSD and a hard disk drive are becoming common in computers.
The original Mac had 128 kilobytes of memory and no hard disk drive.
Intevac shares are trading sharply higher after the disk-drive and solar manufacturing equipment supplier issued robust guidance for the second quarter.
Personally, I would have liked to see what he would have written about the early hard disk drive industry and the characters that created it.
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Through the International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (Idema) all hard drive makers have committed to adopting the 4K advanced format by the end of January 2011.
Flash-based solid state disk (SSD) everywhere and anywhere defers or eliminates the need for additional high performance disk purchases to drive performance.
The desktop Apple computers, the iMac and Mac mini, will include a combination of hard disk drives and flash memory called a Fusion drive.
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Apple Inc. ( AAPL) and Seagate Technologies ( STX), a hard disk drive company, are his top two holdings, and Dell ( DELL) is his tenth largest.
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Other employees at the company bring experience from the disk drive, display and glass industries.
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Iomega says that it also intends to keep the 100MB Zip drive and disk on the market.
Among his early wins were Seagate, the disk drive company, and Ameritrade.
We got into it because we were doing a traditional value play, buying the spinning disk drive maker Seagate and Western Digital.
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So obsolete, in fact, that it may quickly join the ranks of such Sony success stories as the hard drive floppy disk and the Betamax video format.
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