The Momentus XT drives include a flash memory cache inside of the hard disk drive.
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Dual storage configurations using an SSD and a hard disk drive are becoming common in computers.
Jim organized the hard disk drive history exhibit that graced the annual USA Diskcon conference for many years.
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The hard disk drive maker beat on profit, but missed slightly on sales.
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.
One way that HDD companies can put more capacity in a hard disk drive is to add more disks and heads.
Seagate said that, due to industry impacts caused by flooding in Thailand, hard disk drive supply will be constrained for several quarters.
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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Heck, IBM invented the hard disk drive then sold the whole business to Hitachi several years ago at just about the right time.
The device also comes standard with 4GB RAM, expandable to 8GB, and a 320GB 7200rpm hard disk drive, with an optional 128GB solid state drive available.
The Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disk drive market that generated millions of dollars of losses for well-known electronics manufacturers.
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Over the 56 years of the hard disk drive industry annual shipments of HDDs have increased year over year except for a few exceptions.
The combination storage offering will combine 128 GB of NAND flash memory with either a 1 TB or 3 TB hard disk drive (HDD).
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Models configured with an ultra-fast SSD flash drive give you ultra-speed access to files around ten times faster than a standard hard disk drive.
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Personally, I would have liked to see what he would have written about the early hard disk drive industry and the characters that created it.
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It involves giving television sets and other entertainment devices a network connection, a hard disk drive and the ability to connect to broadband Internet connections.
This last week saw some interesting announcements representing the implementation of technologies that will enhance hard disk drive and flash memory technology in 2013 and beyond.
The "A-Drive" represents the next generation of storage innovation providing capacities of up to 1 TB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) with 32 GB Solid State Drive (SSD).
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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Write caching could allow the hard disk drive to stay in a lower power non-spinning state for longer periods of time, extending battery life for the notebook computer.
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It appears like that Toshiba will end up with 15-20% of the hard disk drive market in unit shipments as a result of the Seagate and Western Digital acquisitions.
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Tom is publishes a Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics Report, a Media and Entertainment Storage Report, and a Capital Equipment and Technology Report for the Hard Disk Drive Industry.
Boasting solid state drive (SSD) like speed and hard disk drive capacity, the new Seagate Laptop and Laptop Thin SSHDs are the most affordable way to increase your laptop performance.
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Some of the changes involved in the transformation include exiting its PC and hard disk drive businesses in time for the dramatic slow-down that would take place in those industries.
Sony Computer Entertainment America announced on Tuesday morning that it would be selling updated versions of its PlayStation 3 console with more hard disk drive space at 160GB and 320GB, respectively.
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How about eight-window simultaneous multi-display, an Opera-based web browser, DLNA, and a 3TB hard disk drive, 2TB for "time-shift" recording recording up to 26 hours of programs, up to eight channels simultaneously.
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As a result iSuppli redicts hard disk drive shipments for the first quarter of 2011 will fall 4 percent to 160.9 million units, down from 167.6 million units during the year-ago period.
The notebook's external storage options include a LS-120 SuperDisk drive (which also supports 3.5-inch floppy disks), a CD-ROM drive, a DVD ROM drive and hard disk drive options of up to 20G bytes.
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