Schiller pointed out that one major application for optical drives, software distribution, has gone largely digital.
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Enforced bed rest made console gaming impossible, and optical drives even more of an anachronism.
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Given their tray-loading optical drives, though, they could be unnecessarily thick and heavy, depending on your needs.
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Willing to make unpopular decisions (e.g. ditching optical drives) when considered for the greater good (e.g. weight, size).
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Sehat and Pantas plan to double their storage business by getting their silicon into optical drives, especially the new high-definition DVD burners.
These new models feature ATI Radeon HD4670 video cards, a subwoofer, Dolby Surround II capabilities, 16:9 cinema-level displays, and Blue-ray optical drives.
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Sony has already announced that it will stop making optical drives itself.
Because the data are written and read in megabit chunks, holo-drives can transfer data at 20 megabytes per second, far faster than optical drives.
On the downside, they found the system to be "somewhat noisy, " and the slot-loading optical drives could limit upgradeability further on down the line.
Plus, the line was developed to support new technologies as they become more widespread, such as Blu-ray optical drives for enjoying the latest high-definition movies.
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But the new iMacs are the first ones without optical drives.
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Still, this was pretty clear, almost no ultraportables have optical drives.
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Apple has put its computers into unibody cases, sealed in the batteries, removed the optical drives, dumped hard disks when possible and either shrunk or eliminated many once-standard connectors.
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Both the Fit and Fit E will be offered with optional NVIDIA GT 740M GPUs (1GB or 2GB), touchscreens, optical drives and a choice of Core i3, i5 and i7 processors (Ivy Bridge for now).
It competes with IBM, EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems in the storage hardware market by selling products like flash drives, magneto-optical drives, magnetic tape drives and compact drives that are used for backing up data on servers.
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Currently, HDTVs are compatible with a wide variety of devices via USB connection, including hard drives, cameras, and flash drives, but they do not support optical disk drives built for computers.
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Dolby expects the majority of PCs to continue to ship with optical disc drives when Windows 8 is released and to include optical disc playback functionality.
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Plextor continues to deliver generations of innovative industry-leading products, including Blu-ray optical disc drives, solid state drives, digital video converters and multimedia devices.
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Optical disc drives take up precious space in our ever-shrinking gadgets, and the ability to stream music or movies on demand has made CDs and DVDs less essential.
Consumer devices use common digital storage technology such as flash memory, hard disk drives or optical discs.
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There were particularly severe issues for companies making disk drives and optical networking components, but the impact was widespread.
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The team is already thinking of applications for metamaterials as read-heads for future generations of hard-disk drives or optical modulators for communications.
As can be seen, traditional film use is 15% or less with digital technologies such as optical discs, hard disk drives, magnetic tape and flash memory are the bulk of modern recording media.
Regarding the longevity of storage media many of the products that we use today, hard disk drives, flash memory, optical discs and magnetic tape will react with the ambient environment and gradually lose the data stored on them or disintegrate over time.
Though not directly affected by the Thai flooding, the company cautioned that they could be affected by potential shortages of non-optical components used in customer systems, like hard disk drives.
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" The sleek brushed aluminum front panel peels back to reveal a vast interior with room for ten expansion slots, up to nine hard drives or SSD with three hot-swap mounts, four 5.25" optical drive bays, and both 2x USB 3.0 ports and 4x USB 2.0 ports for maximum expandability.
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