Last October, for example, the company unveiled a new line of thin MacBook Air notebooks that have no disk drives.
Enterprise MFPs handle large volumes of data and have integrated disk drives.
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X-box, with a graphical interface supposedly superior to Sony's, will also have a hard disk and Internet connection.
The "I Have a Hard Disk and I'm Not Afraid to Use It" award goes to the Sony PlayStation 3 .
For times when your PC just won't boot, you need to have a working boot disk stowed away.
For decades, hard-disk makers have been shrinking the electromagnetic media that store data to cram more information into a tinier footprint.
Hard disk drives have shown their own improvements. 4 TB 3.5-inch HDDs are ramping into production by all the remaining HDD companies.
If doctors wanted to pull out older heart images, technicians would have to locate the disk the image was stored on, and it could take up to a day to find it.
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Although magnetic tape sitting in slots in a tape library uses very little energy data latency is high, spinning magnetic disk drives have lower latency but they can use up a fair amount of energy.
Plus, users don't have to worry about toting around a floppy disk or flash drive--all they have to do is log on to pick up working on projects where they left off.
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.
In the book, Christensen describes how innovations on the low-end of established markets, from discount retail to disk drives, have made dramatic gains in marketshare.
Flash memory does not have the physical limitations of hard disk drives and they keep better pace with processors.
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Personally, I would have liked to see what he would have written about the early hard disk drive industry and the characters that created it.
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We hear you said, "The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk ... and with a tiny little screen, " and went on to slap it on using a crank as a power source where there's no electricity.
Users never have to worry about running out of disk space again.
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Compounding the problem: the floods have also have affected component suppliers, including the disk-drive motor company Nidec and suspension arm manufacturer Hutchinson Technology, among others.
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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.
Both Dell and HP have downbeat expectations for the quarter, and disk-drive maker Seagate has projected flat sequential growth for the quarter.
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It is reasonable to conclude that sales of disk drives in the PC market have also declined more than the estimates of Wall Street analysts.
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But despite the violent behavior witnessed from V1647 and the surrounding disk, the star appears to have been relatively stable since the researchers began studying it in 2004.
As I have previously written, the increased demand for disk drives for cloud and network storage is not likely to produce enough new profits to offset the decline in the PC market.
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Over the 56 years of the hard disk drive industry annual shipments of HDDs have increased year over year except for a few exceptions.
Turn it off and leave it off, it wears out the disk drive a lot faster if you have it engaged, just a word of warning.
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If the demand from cloud and network storage was anywhere near close to the projections of some of the bulls on disk drive stocks, EMC stock should have been up over 100% but instead it has languished.
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Companies have to choose between tape storage for archiving, cheap disk storage for everyday nonessential data like backups and video archives, better gear and software for the more important records such as essential e-mails and tax returns and very pricey faultless storage (with outages measured in seconds per year) for online transactions and stock exchanges.
For one, with the Internet, artists have many more ways of gaining exposure for themselves besides local disk jockeys.
Ting Xu, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and Thomas Russell, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, have created a technique that could, theoretically, pack a disk the size of a quarter with 10.5 terabits (more than 10 trillion bits) of data, the equivalent of 250 DVDs.
If our solar system's disk wasn't ionized, its material would not have been funneled onto the young sun's surface, researchers said.
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