The density of helium is one-seventh that of air, delivering significant advantages to HGST's sealed-drive platform.
ENGADGET: HGST develops helium-filled, high-capacity hard drives: no, they won't float away
The new, helium-filled sealed-drive platform is being demonstrated today at the Western Digital Investor event in Irvine, California.
ENGADGET: HGST develops helium-filled, high-capacity hard drives: no, they won't float away
"Once you like it, a muscle-car person is going to be addicted to a rear-wheel drive platform, " he says.
The critical watt-per-TB metric will further improve over time as the helium-filled drive platform enables significantly higher drive capacities in future product generations.
ENGADGET: HGST develops helium-filled, high-capacity hard drives: no, they won't float away
They also talk of building a new plant for a new small car, which would cost a fortune, but ignore their at-one-time hugely profitable rear-drive platform.
The case for a merger, meager as it is, could go something like this: buy Chrysler for almost nothing, spin off Jeep or Hummer, absorb the minivan operations and a few other product lines, like the Chrysler 300 rear-wheel-drive platform.
BiTMICRO's new platform architecture, considered as the only solid state drive storage platform design featuring two customized ASIC controllers, serves as the foundation for its new breed of SSD storage solutions expected to be released soon.
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"We were well on the path to making a rear-wheel-drive global platform, " says Mays.
For others, the very presence of uncertainty offers a platform to drive clever and radical change.
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Evangelho says that a used games restriction would drive gamers to another platform, but argues that because companies lose money on hardware, those cheap gamers would actually become a financial burden.
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The developer's previous title, Halo, helped drive sales for the rival Xbox platform.
The Palm Pilot started life as an appliance, but Palm OS would grow to a platform in order to drive new functionality.
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RocketHub, as readers of my column are likely aware, is a forward-thinking crowdfunding platform that is working drive education on the power of online fundraising.
Fortunately, just because DaimlerChrysler (nyse: DCX - news - people ) owns a controlling interest in Mitsubishi doesn't mean sharing a platform delivers the same drive characteristics.
More importantly, its goal is to help drive sales for small merchants on its platform.
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An ultra-rigid chassis with strategic use of high-tensile steel provides a vault-like platform for the rear-drive powertrain configuration.
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The front-wheel drive LEAF again uses a dedicated EV platform with batteries housed in the floor for optimum vehicle packaging and weight distribution.
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But it is not established as the dominant platform with the people who will drive development forward.
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Primarily a platform that's intended to drive consumer engagement with brands via a social medium, Meebo also provides advertisers a less-intrusive way to reach their target audiences.
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If Facebook was able to merge its ability to drive sales and convert that to a mobile platform, the company would be looking at even more astounding numbers than it produced on Tuesday.
Finally, the note played up the ability to "attach documents directly into your Drive Gmail, " and given that it's intended to be an open platform, Goog's promising to work with third party developers in order to enhance Drive's functionality even further.
The group gathered to watch Steve Cook drive his Chevrolet Astro van up to a judging platform with colored lights and electronic reader boards.
The artistic design combines with the high-speed USB 3.0 interface and cross-platform compatibility to result in a hard drive that is as practical as it is stunning.
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Hence, we believe that AOL provides Yahoo with an ideal platform to aggressively expand its content offerings and drive its display ad business.
Simply knowing what digital platforms people are using does not tell a brand how that platform can best be leveraged, linking the platform to the emotional and rational aspects that drive consumer engagement with a category.
But I am starting to wonder if Facebook marketing, super-charged by an exponential increase in sharing, will eventually drive a decline in user experience so drastic it threatens the platform itself.
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And it will definitely drive more engagement, if not necessarily more revenue, for the platform.
The company also offers AppExchange, which is an online directory that provides customers a way to browse, test-drive, share and install applications developed on the Force.com platform.
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For that, the platform must be linked to the emotional and rational aspects that drive consumer engagement with the category itself.
Such a model is empowered not only by the willingness to debate in an open platform with advocates and detractors alike, but also facilitation to drive constructive debate and results.
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