Cable companies, racing to keep up, are installing a TiVo-like disk into their set-top boxes.
The mechanical components are readily available from disk drive makers like Maxtor.
At the core of these enterprise storage systems are disk drives much like the one in your PC, but surrounded with considerable extra hardware and software to give them the security and easy management that big companies demand.
Although Intel did not detail where the disk drive shortages are originating from, disk driver makers like Western Digital (WDC) and Seagate (STX) have discussed various levels of supply shortages in recent weeks due to flooding in Thailand.
For the technology to work like a disk, though, the same bits of data will have to pass repeatedly under the reading and writing heads.
Though not directly affected by the Thai flooding, the company cautioned that they could be affected by potential shortages of non-optical components used in customer systems, like hard disk drives.
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The NAND type could contain more than double the amount of information and be slower if used like a floppy disk or hard drive.
After a meal this rich, one begins to understand why the Romans ate while reclining, and lighter dessert options beckon, like the silky disk of panna cotta or the fresh berry sorbetto.
In addition to a higher storage capacity than past LTO generations, LTO 5 also offers new architecture features such as the LTFS file system that turn magnetic tape into a directly addressable data source, like a hard disk drive.
The first to benefit will be the subcontractors, like the makers of disk drives and circuit boards.
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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Companies have to choose between tape storage for archiving, cheap disk storage for everyday nonessential data like backups and video archives, better gear and software for the more important records such as essential e-mails and tax returns and very pricey faultless storage (with outages measured in seconds per year) for online transactions and stock exchanges.
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.
Parallels touts that its software includes a built-in suite of tools like Kaspersky antivirus software and Acronis disk backup.
And scientists can watch the genetic code being accessed like watching a computer reading a hard disk.
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You can choose to customize as little or as much of your instances as you would like, including customizing the hardware, OS, disk, and other configuration options.
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Marvell has dominated every market it has chosen to enter, with superior designs at a premium price: It knocked Texas Instruments out of the disk-drive chip business and rivals Broadcom in key communications markets like Ethernet ports and Wi-Fi radios.
Under Jobs' leadership, Apple has helped usher in now-common features like the mouse and the 3.5-inch floppy disk.
But with games like Natas, named for a virus that spread via floppy disk in 1992, Van Acker says he hopes to fill a niche for true beginners learning the basics of web attacks and web security.
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"Solid state" storage systems, like flash memory, offer some clear advantages over the spinning-disk drives of the past.
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.
Although in decline over the last year or so notebook computer makers appear to be poised to offer thin and light weight, reasonably priced products that provide performance and power use like those of flash memory devices with the storage costs of hard disk drives.
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.
As we approach the general availability of ultrabooks with the Windows 8 operating system it looks like the largest sales for ultra-thin computers will include a hard disk drive as well as flash memory.
However, if the total disk storage systems market grows at a much slower rate due to lower demand for disk storage, there could be significant downside to our estimate for data storage firms like EMC and NetApp.
But the Santa Clara, California company has always been its mother's child, with Dai supplying a majority of the company's cultural DNA. Marvell, which makes high-speed chips for disk drives and communications gear, has great designs that outperform older chips made by giants like Intel, Texas Instruments and Broadcom.
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