PC's hard-drive is a mere four megabytes instead of the 40-50 megabytes of the uncompressed version.
The company shipped 28.5 million hard-drive units in the quarter, down from 52.2 million a year ago.
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This digital wave started with a trickle called TiVo, one of the first computer-hard-drive-based digital video recorders (DVRs).
The firm now expects the hard-drive shortage to recovery in the September quarter, one quarter later than previously forecast.
SanDisk didn't even attempt to go head-to-head with Apple's flagship hard-drive iPod player, as Microsoft did with the Zune.
The console will come with a Kinect and a 4Gb hard-drive, as well as a two-year subscription to Xbox Live.
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Its Chrome OS has a history of being secure (although cloud computing will never be as protected as a local personal hard-drive).
He says discussions with the PC supply chain suggest Q1 production will he below seasonal patterns, due to hard-drive shortages and generally soft demand.
Many also felt Marvell was too dependent on the hard-drive business.
In 2009, after three years of almost constant hard-drive rotation, all the atoms fell into place in a nice colourful stable pattern on the monitor.
It is for giant magnetoresistance the basis of modern computer hard-drive memories.
Al Shugart cofounded Seagate Technology, the world's largest independent hard-drive manufacturer.
The cloud is designed to save hard-drive storage space for users by instead letting them store and retrieve documents to multiple devices from remote Web servers.
Mr. Massoud said in a telephone interview that his findings don't exclude that it may have been the police investigator who accessed the hard-drive's files last June 27.
Hard-drive capacity has increased a thousandfold in the past decade.
Chrome OS is designed primarily to work with applications such as e-mail, word-processors, calendars and the like that are stored in the cloud rather than on a user's hard-drive.
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Items you'll need: computers (PCs or Macs), a main storage server, a back-up server (in case the main server dies) and portable hard-drive stored off-site (if the house catches fire).
The initiative inspired several advances in laptop technology, in terms of features (flash memory instead of a spinning hard-drive), design (a laptop-to-tablet form and a waterproof keyboard) and price reductions.
Samsung stock slipped on the news but recover to close the day out with gains of 0.9% after rumors that the company will sell off its hard-drive unit to Seagate ( STX).
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The player will support several digital video formats, including MPEG 2, which is the current standard for digital video used on DVD discs and in hard-drive TV recorders like ReplayTV and TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people ).
G-DRIVE: The G-DRIVE is a professional-strength external hard drive in a single-drive desktop solution.
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Based on a larger 3.5-inch hard drive, the 1 Terabyte Clickfree Backup Drive is the latest addition to the hard drive-based Clickfree lineup.
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Shares in Toshiba climbed 1.4% after the firm said it would sell its Thailand hard-disk-drive manufacturing subsidiary to U.S. peer Western Digital Corp.
Fujitsu is eager to shed its loss-making hard-disk drive business, in order to focus on gaining ground against formidable rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard in information technology services consulting.
Setting the stage for further consolidation in Japan's electronics sector, Toshiba is in talks to buy Fujitsu 's hard-disk drive unit.
Retrieving and storing data from a hard-disk drive takes one million times longer than accessing it from server memory, a difference that can severely degrade application performance.
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.
Seagate (STX) and Western Digital (WDC) shares are trading higher this morning after Citigroup analyst Joe Yoo picked up coverage of the hard-disk drive makers with Buy ratings on both.
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