Never mind that this is mostly pointless: if the hard disk crashes, both partitions are lost.
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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.
The culprit is the supply shortage of hard disk drives resulting from floods in Thailand.
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We also think sales of hard disk drives will be hurt by the emergence of tablet computers.
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They report speeds of 110 metres a second, comfortably competitive with the speed of a hard disk.
Consumer devices use common digital storage technology such as flash memory, hard disk drives or optical discs.
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And scientists can watch the genetic code being accessed like watching a computer reading a hard disk.
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Jim organized the hard disk drive history exhibit that graced the annual USA Diskcon conference for many years.
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They also found a Compaq personal computer holding on its hard disk some two gigabytes of encrypted data.
Thus consumer storage growth will be a driver in cost effective digital storage provided by hard disk drives.
The movie streams straight off the hard disk into the mirror arrays, and thence on to the screen.
X-box, with a graphical interface supposedly superior to Sony's, will also have a hard disk and Internet connection.
The hard disk drive maker beat on profit, but missed slightly on sales.
It's underpowered, has a too-tiny screen and needs a hard disk, Gates says.
The company has controlled its costs by using three tiers of storage with hard disk drives and magnetic tape.
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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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.
VCRs, they are actually specialised computers with a huge hard disk on to which video signals can be saved.
That's significant because analyzing or manipulating data in memory is much faster than retrieving it from a hard disk.
The TCG standards cover various Self Encrypted Drives (SEDs) such as hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs).
The bulk of digital content in data centers will remain on magnetic storage media either hard disk drives or magnetic tape.
The popular Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod comes with a 160-gigabyte hard disk.
Such a dual storage system combines the advantages of higher speed flash memory with lower storage cost hard disk drives.
Since effective cooling is a critical factor in hard disk reliability these products feature state of the art cooling systems.
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The other has a 500GB hard disk and will be sold for roughly the price of the previous 320GB model.
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