For businesses, one of the most attractive uses of flash is to replace hard disks.
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Nimble Storage is a network storage company that combines flash and hard disks to get better performance.
The video is stored on hard disks on a central server and is streamed to each seat.
The cost of SSDs is still higher than that of hard disks, but those costs are falling fast.
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Magnetic tapes can degrade within a decade, while hard disks are expensive and need a constant supply of electricity.
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At least as important is making sure that the computer keeps working smoothly as users fill up their hard disks or add new software.
Neodymium is a rare earth metal used extensively to produce permanent magnets found in everything from computer hard disks and cell phones to wind turbines and cars.
Apple has put its computers into unibody cases, sealed in the batteries, removed the optical drives, dumped hard disks when possible and either shrunk or eliminated many once-standard connectors.
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Schiller pointed out some of the downsides of the technologies it's removed or downplayed: rotating hard disks, for instance, use more power and are more likely to have reliability issues than solid-state storage.
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PCs are turning into crowded repositories of family photographs, songs and e-mails alongside word documents and spreadsheets, and point to locations on their own hard disks as well as to computers far away.
Among today's data-storage devices, magnetic tapes can degrade within a decade, while hard disks are expensive and need a constant supply of electricity to hold their information, creating huge need for power for the "data farms" behind cloud computing.
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That makes it possible not just to skip to any point of a taped show in a split-second, but also to rewind live television: because hard disks are so fast, they can tape and play back at the same time.
The digital revolution has stirred up quite a bit of controversy in the music world, where you'll still find passionate devotees of old analog gear, who insist that magnetic tape and ribbon microphones do a better job at capturing voices and violins than sound cards and hard disks.
Decoupling refresh cycles lets data center customers purchase server compute nodes, which are essentially very small motherboards (processor, system memory, boot environment, management, and connection to a local network fabric), separately from rack-level data center network interfaces (1GbE and 10GbE), separately from mass storage (hard disks and solid-state drives).
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In many ways, the U310 is more similar, even though it has a smaller screen than the U845: it starts with a Core i3 Sandy Bridge processor and a 500GB hard drive (disks with flash storage attached are available as an upgrade).
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One way that HDD companies can put more capacity in a hard disk drive is to add more disks and heads.
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While the suction hand does not work well with porous objects (clothing) or flat items, such as disks, it can pick up most hard objects, including glasses or bowls.
The patents in questions were used in hard drive circuits to read data from high-speed disks.
In a report last week tech tracker iSuppli found that rising sales of tablet computers are hurting notebook PC sales, resulting in a decline in sales of traditional hard disk drives which rely on spinning magnetic disks.
Even though adding disks and heads increases the cost of the hard disk drive, in the current environment of higher HDD prices due to shortages from the Thailand floods of 2011 gives some additional leeway for higher prices to pay for the additional components.
Hard drive makers are in a race to boost capacities and keep spinning disks at least a beat ahead of flash drives on the value curve.
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.
The technology, called RAID (redundant arrays of independent disks), involves clever algorithms for dealing out data among an assortment of hard-disk platters.
Commonly called SSDs or Solid State Disks, these devices put NAND flash into computing environments that typically would use hard disk drives, or HDDs.
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.
It is hard to imagine that gadget fever would have gripped the world if everyone was still shopping for disks.
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Apple, for example, has also frustrated hard-disk drive makers by featuring solid state drives across its line of notebook computers and eliminating spinning disks in the MacBook Air, its thinnest, lightest model.
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