Bandwidth has been becoming more expensive relative to local disk space over that time.
This process may take quite a bit of time and disk space depending on the quality and length of the video.
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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.
It's supposed to work only in idle time, but what it thinks of as idle time (when the hard disk isn't working) usually doesn't jibe with how you see idle time (when you're not using the PC at all).
By the time the red disk sinks below the surface, the animal is dead.
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.
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Solid-state storage and memory technologies in general use less power than hard disk drives when they are active, and thus there can be power savings if some solid-state storage and memory can be used in a mixed storage technology environment in a way that reduces the spinning time of hard disk drives and thus decreases the power needs of a storage system.
But how much better to be Western Digital Corporation, the number two disk-drive maker at the time?
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How about eight-window simultaneous multi-display, an Opera-based web browser, DLNA, and a 3TB hard disk drive, 2TB for "time-shift" recording recording up to 26 hours of programs, up to eight channels simultaneously.
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As the name suggests, databases are held in memory, not on disk, which significantly reduces the read time.
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Computer DVD devices "may never completely replace the disk drive and floppy disks because access time will always be slower on DVD, " he says.
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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.
Many observers have suggested defensive techniques that deploy TrueCrypt disk encryption with hidden volume partitions or PGP Whole Disk Encryption rendering the entire computer unbootable thereby making even file time and date stamps unavailable.
In the case quoted above, the CIO believed that his IT department had been on a storage buying binge and it was high time to in fact use more of the raw disk capacity on the machine room floor that was already powered-up and spinning.
Right-hander Phil Hughes will throw for the first time in two weeks since being sidelined by a bulging disk in his upper back.
If you'd rather not have some wet-behind-the-ears Victoria's Secret Webmaster pondering your camisole predilections, you can tell your browser to refuse cookies or to prompt you each time a Web site wants to write one to your hard disk.
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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Write caching could allow the hard disk drive to stay in a lower power non-spinning state for longer periods of time, extending battery life for the notebook computer.
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Heck, IBM invented the hard disk drive then sold the whole business to Hitachi several years ago at just about the right time.
"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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