Among the capabilities for open compute platforms are erasure codes but also control of HDD array energy use with drive spin-down (like the earlier MAID storage architectures that featured many idle drives).

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The disc drive's spin into obscurity may have started swirling faster last week.

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Bell looked particularly nervous against the spin of Harbhajan but a sumptuous drive past mid-off to the rope would have given him confidence.

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You'll also find a bevy of Microsoft and Toshiba software pre-installed, and while it only tips the scales at 3.79-pounds, you'll have to lug around an external optical drive if you need to spin any discs.

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Acquiring Horizon, which means a work on six new nuclear plants for ten to 15 years, is such a decision, as are sale this year of the California-based hard drive business to Western Digital and spin-off of a Japan-based LCD panel business.

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Front and center, the globe trotting Darren Murph offers some tips for geotagging your shots from that next Blue Ridge Parkway trek and also takes Nokia Drive's offline navigation for a spin on a Lumia 900.

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That was despite Bell (23) having played a loose cover-drive to be caught off the leg-spin of Smith, and Eoin Morgan (8) also hitting a catch into the infield off Smith.

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However, only seven runs short of this benchmark he mistimed a drive to a dipping delivery from Muralitharan and provided a catching chance to the spin bowler, who juggled the ball before claiming it.

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Pulling out the 15k RPM card this late in the game would usually be frowned upon, but in the case of NHK, its latest development to spin at 15, 000 revolutions per minute has nothing to do with a hard disk drive.

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