Key to the device is what's missing: Instead of the optical drive built into most other portable devices, the MacBook Air can wirelessly borrow another device's optical drive, so that it can access software or data stored on a disk.
Figure 2 in the accompanying power point file shows historical storage areal density (AD) growth for HDDs (this is directly related to the amount of digital storage that can be put on a disk in a hard disk drive) from Q1 2000 through Q1 2011.
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So his firm, SoftWide, devised a kiosk-based system that can store thousands of pieces of software on a hard disk, burning a disk only when a customer wants to buy a particular title.
"Sneakernet" is an old jargon term used to describe the act of having to carry a computer file on a floppy disk or other media from a machine in one room to another.
After you configure your backup, Google zips your data into an archive that you can download and store on a hard disk under your bed or in a bank vault in Geneva.
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That said, PC Perspective has put in some quality time with the DDRdrive X1, which places 4GB DRAM and 4GB NAND in parallel on a full height PCIe card, keeping that volatile memory of yours safely backed up on a static disk, just in case.
Essentially a floppy drive on steroids, the inexpensive Zip stores 100 megabytes--or about 70 times the capacity of a standard floppy--on a single disk.
Copy any financial data and important personal files on to a disk or data storage device to put in your safe or safe deposit box.
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He had brought out two large plastic bins filled with the artifacts of his research, and he spread the contents on the table: a metal octagonal disk, sketches on lab paper, a black plastic laser housing that served as the innards for one of his printers.
First, the professional installer had enabled automatic backup between the primary disk partition and a backup disk partition on the same physical disk.
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Worse, I found that if DirecPC failed to update the site on my hard disk because of a glitch in its service, or I didn't leave my computer on, the news would be a day old.
When the bottom disk is rotated the material between its holes exerts a tiny gravitational tug on the material between the holes of the top disk, causing it to rotate, albeit only by billionths of a degree.
VCRs, they are actually specialised computers with a huge hard disk on to which video signals can be saved.
To achieve equal performance on a write IOPS basis utilizing hard disk drives would require over 400 drives, 36U of rack space and consume more than 300 times the power.
Phelps and Ivan Nova were fighting for the final spot in New York's rotation, but will both have jobs with Phil Hughes beginning the season on the disabled list with a bulging disk in his back.
"Nobody knows if it's a muscle with pressure on the sciatic nerve or if there's a problem with a disk, " Stricker said ot the discomfort he felt during his long day.
The newly implemented 256-bit Full Disk Encryption provides additional security on a hardware basis.
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They also found a Compaq personal computer holding on its hard disk some two gigabytes of encrypted data.
If you're already running Windows 98 SE or Windows Me on a system with a 933-MHz or faster processor and a large-cache hard disk, Microsoft recommends you check with your PC vendor about availability of the patch.
Techniques such as extracting operating parameters, comparing application profiles across VMs (to look for signs that one has been successfully attacked), and analyzing application behavior in memory (as opposed to just code stored on disk) are far easier in a virtual environment and provide a huge advantage for stopping the most sophisticated threats.
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.
Phil Hughes will throw in his first simulated game Monday since being sidelined by a bulging disk in his upper back on Feb. 18.
Finally the camera stores the compressed image file on anything from a flash memory card to a floppy disk for later downloading to a computer or printer.
The new system which will underlie both consumer-focused iterations of Windows 8, simply dubbed v4, slims down the 768MB of disk space previously required on Vista for a significantly lighter 184MB (an average) footprint in Windows 8 and adds greater in-box support for more commonly used, contemporary printers -- specifically for Windows RT.
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It appears the major sticking point concerns the depth of the memory layer on which data is written: HD-DVD favors a data layer 0.6mm beneath the surface of the disk, the same depth as on the current generation of DVDs.
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This process may take quite a bit of time and disk space depending on the quality and length of the video.
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The biggest threat to the spinning disk is the flash memory, which has many advantages over the spinning disk but is ten times the price on a per-megabyte basis.
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Sitting in a chair at his locker wearing khakis and a long-sleeve shirt, Youkilis said he thinks the same bulge of a disk that caused him problems last year was "basically rubbing" a nerve, leading to discomfort on his right side.
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