Examples: selling solid-state hard drives on certain notebooks, or offering laptops preloaded with a Linux operating system called Ubuntu.
Those newfangled devices rely almost exclusively on solid-state hard drives, and smartphones outsold PCs for the first-time last year.
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Intel is introducing a new series of solid-state hard drives that offer up to 600 GB in capacity, CNet reports, as its chip geometrics shrink to just 25 nanometers.
He also notes that the company is now in qualification with a number of PC makers on hybrid drives, which includes both the quick booting characteristics of solid-state drives, and the capacity advantages of hard drives.
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The company designs and produces reliable, high-performance hard drives and solid state drives that keep users' data accessible and secure from loss.
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Western Digital Corp. (WDC) : A lot of investors are sour on this California-based firm, a longtime leader in the hard drive and digital storage business, because of the shift away from hard drives toward solid-state and flash drives.
Decoupling refresh cycles lets data center customers purchase server compute nodes, which are essentially very small motherboards (processor, system memory, boot environment, management, and connection to a local network fabric), separately from rack-level data center network interfaces (1GbE and 10GbE), separately from mass storage (hard disks and solid-state drives).
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Solid-state storage and memory technologies in general use less power than hard disk drives when they are active, and thus there can be power savings if some solid-state storage and memory can be used in a mixed storage technology environment in a way that reduces the spinning time of hard disk drives and thus decreases the power needs of a storage system.
Apple, for example, has also frustrated hard-disk drive makers by featuring solid state drives across its line of notebook computers and eliminating spinning disks in the MacBook Air, its thinnest, lightest model.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) develops advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, and innovative external storage solutions and services used to store, preserve and manage the world's most valued data.
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Currently, hard disk drives offer a more cost-efficient alternative to solid state drives, making them a more suitable option for developing and expanding cloud infrastructures, as capacity matters more than speed.
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