That is, you can plug disk drives into the slots and then everything seems to work.
They picked disk drives, for two reasons: There were no standards bodies dominated by big companies.
Over 40% of all electronics manufacturing in Singapore is directly of indirectly related to disk drives.
The culprit is the supply shortage of hard disk drives resulting from floods in Thailand.
These solutions are high performance enterprise class disk drives with sophisticated firmware and communications technologies.
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The company said it shipped 47 million disk drives in the quarter, up 21% year-over-year.
We also think sales of hard disk drives will be hurt by the emergence of tablet computers.
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Consumer devices use common digital storage technology such as flash memory, hard disk drives or optical discs.
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In that context, stripped-down disk drives strike me as overkill, transitional products with a short shelf life.
The first to benefit will be the subcontractors, like the makers of disk drives and circuit boards.
Plus: videocassette players, portable video recorders, the now-ubiquitous Walkman and 3.5-inch floppy disk drives, launched in 1980.
Thus consumer storage growth will be a driver in cost effective digital storage provided by hard disk drives.
In the long run it also seems apparent that sales of modems and disk drives will regain steam.
"Solid state" storage systems, like flash memory, offer some clear advantages over the spinning-disk drives of the past.
Christensen details how established leaders in industries from steel to disk drives were displaced by innovators armed with cheaper, better technology.
Under terms of the deal, Seagate also will supply disk drives for Samsung PCs, notebooks and consumer electronics products.
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There were particularly severe issues for companies making disk drives and optical networking components, but the impact was widespread.
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The company has controlled its costs by using three tiers of storage with hard disk drives and magnetic tape.
Marvell now supplies chips for 90% of big corporate disk drives and half the chips for mass-market PC drives.
Hard disk drives are popular in laptop and desktop computers since they provide high storage capacities at low cost.
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Flash memory does not have the physical limitations of hard disk drives and they keep better pace with processors.
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We had dot-matrix printers, and floppy disk drives and cassette tape players strewn across every desk in our house.
NatSteel, a contract maker of motherboards, disk drives and PC peripherals, has low-cost plants in Asia, Mexico and Hungary.
The TCG standards cover various Self Encrypted Drives (SEDs) such as hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs).
Thanks to the heat decrease, there's room for four internal HDDs, along with the dual disk drives that were rumored.
The bulk of digital content in data centers will remain on magnetic storage media either hard disk drives or magnetic tape.
Such a dual storage system combines the advantages of higher speed flash memory with lower storage cost hard disk drives.
Windows 1.0 only required a minimum of 256 kilobytes (KB), two double-sided floppy disk drives, and a graphics adapter card.
Last October, for example, the company unveiled a new line of thin MacBook Air notebooks that have no disk drives.
Much of these increases in storage capacity will involve the introduction of technologies pioneered in the development of magnetic disk drives.
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