Astronomers were interested in the star because the disk of materials around it showed certain asymmetries.
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.
The oft-dreaded gefilte fish turns up as a super-fresh disk of wild halibut chunks, dressed elegantly with beet and horseradish tartare, tiny arugula leaves, and parsley vinaigrette.
He took a rubber band off the top of one of them, removed a piece of plastic wrap, and, with a knife, jimmied out a disk of wax.
By comparison, meteors of the type that hit Russia originate at the earliest reaches of time in the disk of gas and dust that swirled around the early sun.
The conclusion: The tiny bright blob was an object still embedded in the disk of material around the parent star, suggesting a planet in the earliest stages of coming into being.
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.
Flash can give them 10 times the speed and 10 times the energy efficiency of mechanical disk at at less than the cost of disk.
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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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"Solid state" storage systems, like flash memory, offer some clear advantages over the spinning-disk drives of the past.
TI's chips are now in 50% of all cellular phones, 90% of disk drives and a full third of 56K modems.
For instance Hitachi GST introduced a 1 TB 3.5-inch drive with 5 disks in 2007 and 4 disk versions of such drives were available later.
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Worse, I found that if DirecPC failed to update the site on my hard disk because of a glitch in its service, or I didn't leave my computer on, the news would be a day old.
With an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 8 GB memory, a hard disk capacity of up to 500GB, and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 GPU, this bad boy is available in Brown Luxe, with either chrome or silver accents.
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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You can see that files A, C, and D are now spread all over the disk which causes performance problems because the mechanism of the disk drive has to jump around to find all of the parts of the file.
The noise was the sound of a cracked engine fan disk shooting out of the tail engine and freakishly hitting in the worst possible spot.
Will the current shortage of hard disk drives, the result of the recent severe flooding in Thailand, lead to a glut of PC chip inventory?
Now that the problem is understood it is clear that fewer PCs will ship in the first quarter because of a shortage of hard disk drives, driving an oversupply of semiconductors which will put prices into a tailspin.
Goldman Sachs analyst James Covello this morning trimmed his EPS estimates for Intel to reflect the expected impact on the company from the restricted supply of hard disk-drives as a result of the severe flooding in Thailand.
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The drive contains no moving parts, decreasing the risk of data loss due to shock and vibration, and its mean time between failure (MTBF)4 greatly exceeds that of hard disk drives, giving users peace of mind that it will retain their files for the long term.
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It is reasonable to conclude that sales of disk drives in the PC market have also declined more than the estimates of Wall Street analysts.
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Over the 56 years of the hard disk drive industry annual shipments of HDDs have increased year over year except for a few exceptions.
"The public perception has been that solid-state will take over the world and run disk makers out of business, but you can't bring that product to market without licensing disk drive technology, " said WilliamWatkinsWilliam Watkins, Seagate's chief executive, in an interview with Forbes.
"The public perception has been that solid-state will take over the world and run disk makers out of business, but you can't bring that product to market without licensing disk drive technology, " said William Watkins , Seagate's chief executive, in an interview with Forbes.
Different combinations of disk and drum brakes can be attached to keep Malibus low-priced and to let Saab boast of serious stopping power.
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.
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