This standard 9.5mm drive leverages Advanced Format, which increases the physical sector size from 512 bytes to 4, 096 (4K) bytes to improve drive capacities and error correction capabilities.

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Prior to joining EMD, Wendy spent a decade acquiring hands-on global and national disaster preparedness and response private sector operational experience managing physical security, national crisis management and business continuity projects and teams at Microsoft and the former Washington Mutual Bank.

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It says policies will be directed at reversing economic, social and physical decline in places where the private sector cannot step in without the government's help.

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And while modernizing the physical and virtual networks that connect us will create private-sector jobs, they'll do so while making it possible for companies to more easily and effectively move their products across this country and around the world, and that will create more jobs.

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Erica Meloe, a physical therapist in New York City, counts herself as one of the lucky private sector workers with a vested pension she earned while working for 10 years as a trader and bond specialist for Deutsche Bank.

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