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.
The disk drive reads out a disk ID from the game disk.
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Iomega says that it also intends to keep the 100MB Zip drive and disk on the market.
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.
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.
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.
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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Models configured with an ultra-fast SSD flash drive give you ultra-speed access to files around ten times faster than a standard hard disk drive.
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The "A-Drive" represents the next generation of storage innovation providing capacities of up to 1 TB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) with 32 GB Solid State Drive (SSD).
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 Momentus XT drives include a flash memory cache inside of the hard disk drive.
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With disk drive prices dropping, the Crowns no longer had an edge in this narrow market.
Other employees at the company bring experience from the disk drive, display and glass industries.
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Dual storage configurations using an SSD and a hard disk drive are becoming common in computers.
It fires up in a snap, no whirring disk drive sounds, no long-secret-handshake security software.
Chanos thinks the disk drive makers will face added pressure from excess supply of digital storage space.
Jim organized the hard disk drive history exhibit that graced the annual USA Diskcon conference for many years.
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The biggest opportunity from this data lies in short selling disk drive manufacturers Western Digital and Seagate.
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That aging design, built around an old-fashioned spinning disk drive, can hardly be called the future of Apple.
The hard disk drive maker beat on profit, but missed slightly on sales.
The mechanical components are readily available from disk drive makers, such as Maxtor.
The original Mac had 128 kilobytes of memory and no hard disk drive.
The company said hard disk drive supply shortages are behind its lowered forecast.
The mechanical components are readily available from disk drive makers like Maxtor.
Seagate kicked TI out of its line, and Marvell later chased NEC and Infineon out of other disk drive makers.
Only thing is, data stored on that relatively slow disk drive (instead of flash memory) resulted in "sluggish" screen-to-screen transitions.
From January to August this year, Singapore's electronics sector output grew an impressive 22%--even as disk drive production was falling.
Luck may be on Luczo's side: The notoriously cyclical disk drive business seems to be bottoming just as Luczo takes over.
One way that HDD companies can put more capacity in a hard disk drive is to add more disks and heads.
Watkins was fired as the chief executive of disk drive maker Seagate in January 2009 due to a disagreement over strategy.
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