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Over the longer term, nanoscale engineering may replace some rare earths by emulating their properties, or at least reduce the amount needed per magnet, LED, hybrid, or computer.
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Thus the HDD spindle motors can be spun down more often resulting in reduced power usage in the computer the hybrid storage device is used in.
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Nowadays, hybrid movies that merge live action with computer animation to produce three-dimensional digital maps of their real-life actors' body movements include lots of fine-grained information about expression.
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Three possibilities proposed by Cox: a "peer-to-peer" social network, a cluster of "virtual individual servers" running on a cloud service such as Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud, and "hybrid decentralization, " a mix of the two approaches.
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Using a combination of HDD and flash memory in either a hybrid HDD or a dual storage notebook computer, where frequently used data (and possibly the operating system and application software) is kept in the flash memory, while the bulk of user content is kept on the HDD, has been shown to provide about 80% of the performance improvements of a pure SSD-based computer.
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Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba are shipping hybrid HDDs targeted for the ultra-thin mobile computer market with up to 8 GB of flash memory and 1 TB hard disk storage.
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Tablets lack the functionality of a full computer and leave many holes holes that I think a hybrid device like the Microsoft Surface will be able to fill.
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For those computer users with significant content needs dual storage approaches like the Fusion Drive as well as hybrid HDDs could offer an ideal marriage of capacity and speed.
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The company has introduced products for this industry before but it appears that the time is right for these products as well as hybrid HDDs (HDDs that contain some cache flash memory for frequently used data) to become wide-spread in computer architectures.
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