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Heating Degree Day

A day on which the temperature in a certain area is below 65 degrees Fahrenheit, necessitating the use of heaters. Heating degree days are used in some weather futures, which are contracts in which the buyer is required to pay the seller some multiple of $20 for each heating degree day in a month, depending on how much cooler it is. Weather futures allow businesses to hedge against potential losses resulting from unexpected changes in weather. Energy companies are the most common sellers of weather futures; they have become relatively popular investments. See also: Cooling degree day.
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Contractors, for the most part, seemed bullish on HDD prospects for the foreseeable future.
The entry location offered ample space to set up both HDD spreads and support equipment, while the exit location, on the north side, offered sufficient space for Barnard's crews to string and weld the pipe.
Seagate is addressing this challenge head on by introducing the Mobile HDD, an innovative new drive that provides our designers with the freedom to create devices with high capacity in a form factor consumers demand making it a win win for both of us.
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It will also boost its capability to make HDDs for high-capacity servers at data centers, it said.
In 2010, HDD shipments from both Seagate and Samsung added to 261.2 million units, giving the combined companies 40 percent of the HDD market, IHS iSuppli analyst Fang Zhang said in Mayin a blogpost.
As Deutsche Bank senior analyst Sherri Scribner noted, "Despite the significant shortfall in total available market this quarter, we believe the industry will see a gross margin benefit from HDD supply disruptions.
By optimizing the entire system data path, the TrueStore family enables HDD makers to continually develop higher-capacity products with increased performance and lower overall power usage, while enabling faster time-to-volume and lower costs.
A HDD is a device that uses one or more rotating magnetic disks to store and allow access to digital data.
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