Sehat says he knew he could make chips for processing disk data that were smaller, cooler-burning and speedier than chips then on the market.

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They keep the PC patched, keep its disk drive in good order, make sure its drivers are up-to-date, and generally make it run smooth as silk.

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Two thousand years hence, Sherwood says hypothesized collections of Asteroidal materials congregating at the Earth-Sun L4 and L5 gravitational equilibrium points would make for building materials to construct a large rotating pancake disk capable of housing thousands of people in the comfort of a free-breathing atmosphere and some form of artificial gravity.

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He is critical of the UBS ETN, meanwhile, for basing itself on an index of 11 constituents, most of which are companies that make, among other things, a type of hard-disk drive currently in vogue.

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Available disk space is a design choice and a tough one to make as an engineering team.

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One thing left for him to do: fix the high-end disk drive business, where the company used to think it was going to make all of its money.

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