They also found a Compaq personal computer holding on its hard disk some two gigabytes of encrypted data.

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With these two mergers the total number of companies manufacturing hard disk drives (HDDs) will decline from five to three, with Toshiba, Seagate and Western Digital as the surviving players.

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Apple Inc. ( AAPL) and Seagate Technologies ( STX), a hard disk drive company, are his top two holdings, and Dell ( DELL) is his tenth largest.

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Over the past two years, the company has made a "spin down" feature for hard-disk boxes, where if the TV has not been in use for several hours the disk rests.

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