The hard drive capacity varies, too: the non-touch one starts with 500GB of space, while the TouchSmart has 750GB.
SSD-like speed, hard drive capacity-all at an affordable price-makes the Seagate Desktop SSHD a perfect choice for gaming enthusiasts like me.
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To appreciate how mall 20 MB of hard drive capacity is note that just three downloaded songs are likely to exceed 20 MB.
Additionally, upgraded machines tended not to be good values, as boosting the RAM, hard drive capacity, and optical drive drove the price "beyond the reach" of most business laptop customers.
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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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In 2011 floods in Thailand severely reduced the global hard drive production capacity.
Hard-drive capacity has increased a thousandfold in the past decade.
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The PS4 comes with a hard drive of unknown capacity.
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"Floppies and memory keys have their place, but they don't have anything like the capacity or flexibility of a hard drive so are unable to meet the demand for more and more storage capacity in consumer devices, " said Mr Larsson.
The new PS3 will come in 3 models including extended built in Hard Disk Drive (HDD) capacity of 500GB model and 250GB model, and a newly added 12GB flash memory model initially for Europe only.
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Using the included IR remote or the REDRAY iOS application (available from the Apple App Store), users can connect to REDRAY via wireless network to select and manage their 4K and HD content, stored on the internal 1TB capacity hard disk drive.
Toshiba's Canvio Special Edition Portable Hard Drive provides users with spacious storage capacity and a complete, yet simple-to-use backup solution.
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Fusion Drive is an innovative new storage option that gives customers the performance of flash storage and the capacity of a hard drive.
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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.
With the Seagate Desktop SSHD, users can now experience SSD-like performance while enjoying the capacity of a desktop hard drive- all at a fraction of what a similar size SSD costs.
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The recent availability of a 1.8-inch hard drive from Japan's Toshiba with a capacity of 40 gigabytes has fueled intense speculation that a 40-gigabyte iPod may see the light of day soon.
Apple's 3-pound MacBook Air, the 2.4-pound Toshiba includes the optical drive that the MacBook Air lacks while cramming in 128 gigabytes worth of storage, thanks to the world's largest capacity flash memory-based hard drive.
"Today, our year-long vision of creating a 5mm thin hybrid hard drive in 2.5'' form factor with increased storage capacity and reduced power consumption at a lower cost for manufacturers has become a reality, " said Dr. Pantelis Alexopoulos, Executive Director of DSI.
Encased in an ultra-lightweight and strong magnesium enclosure, the Mobile Drive Mg is an ideal match for the Apple MacBook - perfect for those style-conscious Mac users and at just 10mm is also the thinnest mobile hard drive available in the world, allowing users to reliably expand their storage capacity with a complementary product that is elegant, portable and easy to use.
According to Fujitsu, the end result will be drives with a capacity ten times greater than what's possible using current hard drive technologies, though there's unfortunately no indication when the average user will actually be able to slot one of these magical drives into their PC.
Housing the new HGST Travelstar hard drive, the new 1TB, 7200RPM-based Touro Mobile Pro offers high-performance and massive storage capacity for storing hours of high-definition videos, thousands of photos, songs and movies, and tons of video games with room to spare.
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Because it has a 6-gigabyte hard drive, most music collectors would be hard-pressed to even come close to exhausting the machine's capacity.
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