The Momentus XT drives include a flash memory cache inside of the hard disk drive.
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With disk drive prices dropping, the Crowns no longer had an edge in this narrow market.
Other employees at the company bring experience from the disk drive, display and glass industries.
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Dual storage configurations using an SSD and a hard disk drive are becoming common in computers.
It fires up in a snap, no whirring disk drive sounds, no long-secret-handshake security software.
Chanos thinks the disk drive makers will face added pressure from excess supply of digital storage space.
Jim organized the hard disk drive history exhibit that graced the annual USA Diskcon conference for many years.
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The biggest opportunity from this data lies in short selling disk drive manufacturers Western Digital and Seagate.
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That aging design, built around an old-fashioned spinning disk drive, can hardly be called the future of Apple.
The hard disk drive maker beat on profit, but missed slightly on sales.
The mechanical components are readily available from disk drive makers, such as Maxtor.
The original Mac had 128 kilobytes of memory and no hard disk drive.
The company said hard disk drive supply shortages are behind its lowered forecast.
The mechanical components are readily available from disk drive makers like Maxtor.
Seagate kicked TI out of its line, and Marvell later chased NEC and Infineon out of other disk drive makers.
Only thing is, data stored on that relatively slow disk drive (instead of flash memory) resulted in "sluggish" screen-to-screen transitions.
From January to August this year, Singapore's electronics sector output grew an impressive 22%--even as disk drive production was falling.
Luck may be on Luczo's side: The notoriously cyclical disk drive business seems to be bottoming just as Luczo takes over.
One way that HDD companies can put more capacity in a hard disk drive is to add more disks and heads.
Watkins was fired as the chief executive of disk drive maker Seagate in January 2009 due to a disagreement over strategy.
Setting the stage for further consolidation in Japan's electronics sector, Toshiba is in talks to buy Fujitsu 's hard-disk drive unit.
Since selling its disk drive business more than 10 years ago, the company has focused on data protection and big data management.
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Seagate said that, due to industry impacts caused by flooding in Thailand, hard disk drive supply will be constrained for several quarters.
Among his early wins were Seagate, the disk drive company, and Ameritrade.
We got into it because we were doing a traditional value play, buying the spinning disk drive maker Seagate and Western Digital.
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The SanDisk Extreme SSD is more reliable and durable than a hard disk drive and is backed by SanDisk's reputation for quality.
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The disk drive reads out a disk ID from the game disk.
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Toshiba, the third largest player in the industry, announced its margins on its disk drive business will be cut in half this year.
Heck, IBM invented the hard disk drive then sold the whole business to Hitachi several years ago at just about the right time.
In 1997 IBM harnessed the effect to produce an ultrasensitive disk drive that could pack 2.7 gigabytes of data into a square inch.
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