Each machine will support hard drives as large as 180 gigabytes and will have slots for up to four drives, giving them a maximum storage capacity of 720 gigabytes.

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The format is useful for backing up hard drives and manipulating large video and audio files.

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Microsoft began working on the patches when its labs noticed the problem in 933 MHz and faster prototype systems that use ATA100 hard disk drives with a large physical cache.

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Generation Health simplifies the selection of genetic tests for physicians, it helps explain the test and its results to patients, it safeguards data, and it drives a hard bargain with testing centers through its ability to direct large volumes of tests their way.

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They boast large global market shares in specialised niches: ceramics and other fine materials for semiconductors, tiny motors for hard drives and other digital equipment, a range of sophisticated machines for making liquid-crystal display panels, and so forth.

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