Over 40% of all electronics manufacturing in Singapore is directly of indirectly related to disk drives.
Christensen details how established leaders in industries from steel to disk drives were displaced by innovators armed with cheaper, better technology.
For example, you may do initial backups to disk-based storage elsewhere in the data center, with further backups to tape.
While Sony will stick to disk drives in its next PlayStation, the company is expected to change some aspects of the console.
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In the book, Christensen describes how innovations on the low-end of established markets, from discount retail to disk drives, have made dramatic gains in marketshare.
Interrupting the reboot process only long enough to change the initial boot device in BIOS from CD-ROM to disk, I impatiently watched Linux boot, waiting for the login prompt to appear.
Ruminating about his failed affairs, he lives alone in Marseilles, comforted by a few ill-sorted friends, who are nastily stalked by a mobster baddie eager to locate Babette (and surprisingly ignorant when it comes to disk-copying).
If you have room left over on the iPod after transferring your music, you can use it as a portable hard disk, manually copying any computer file to its hard disk to back up files or move them to another Mac.
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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Eventually, the only course for Iomega will be to license its disk technology to third-party manufacturers, as it is already starting to do with its drives.
But when you get there and pop it into the little player on your desk, you hear a voice say, 'We're sorry, but you are only authorized to play this disk on up to two CD players.
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The company said that while its own component and disk drive factories in Thailand have not been directly affected by flooding, its ability to manufacture hard disk drives has been impacted due to external component supply constraints, as it has disclosed previously.
Bandwidth has been becoming more expensive relative to local disk space over that time.
The program, it could be argued, can be preserved just by copying it to a disk or printing out the code.
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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.
So if an organization decided to buy even more disk space to try and increase their performance, they actually end up over-purchasing and under-utilizing all of their storage capacity for miniscule gains.
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On previous iOS releases, when your app performed a coordinated read operation on a file or package and the iCloud daemon noticed that there was a newer version of the item available, the coordinated read operation blocked until the newer version of the item was downloaded and written to the disk.
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High definition titles purchased from VUDU can be stored on the consumer's VUDU box or in the VUDU Vault, a free online storage option for movies and TV shows that enables consumers to free up disk space while still retaining access to all their purchased titles.
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The bitrate has been jacked up to 16mbps when shooting in 1080p (up from the previous model's 12mbps), but if you want to save some disk space, this can be dropped to 8mbps.
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Mr Scarfo used an encryption program to scramble his computer files so that when the FBI gained access to his hard disk in January 1999, it was unable to unscramble them without the password.
However, if the total disk storage systems market grows at a much slower rate due to lower demand for disk storage, there could be significant downside to our estimate for data storage firms like EMC and NetApp.
If doctors wanted to pull out older heart images, technicians would have to locate the disk the image was stored on, and it could take up to a day to find it.
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It provides plenty of space to store and manage important documents and media thanks to a spacious SATA hard disk with up to 500GB of capacity.
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In addition, the mutual supply agreements enable Seagate to secure an important source of leading-edge NAND flash supply as the company expands its SSD and solid state hybrid product offerings, and position Seagate to be a more significant supplier of disk drives to Samsung.
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It took Intel, for example, until last month to inform shareholders that its fourth-quarter results will not match its earlier outlook, due to a global shortage of hard disk drives related to the flooding.
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As early as the late 1980s Quantum Corp. saw which way the wind was blowing and attempted to reposition itself away from its traditional business of supplying small disk drives to PC manufacturers.
With five working days a week, an IT manager can assign each disk to a daily backup.
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What we really have now is primarily a memory-based machine with a lot of disk to expand the capacity of it.
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With one touch, the user can transfer photos from the camera's insert to a Zip disk for long-term storage, or send them via e-mail.
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