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Random I/O will never occur at throughput levels of sequential I/O since a random I/O involves moving the disk head (seek time), waiting on the disk platter to spin to the right location (rotational latency) in addition to the time required to move the data.
SAS I/O performance: unprecedented flexibility in I/O bandwidth selection
Even so, notes Hillenbrand, researchers can use the Spitzer data to map the locations of dust within a disk.
Panning distant dust: the hunt for extrasolar planets gets dirty
So now, instead of working on a cramped hard disk and risking a disk crash, you can store infrequently used programs on portable storage mediums and, when you need to run a program, just plug in the auxiliary drive, load the appropriate cartridge and you're in business.
Running out of storage space
As we celebrate 50 years of hard disk drive innovation, the industry has never been stronger or more vibrant," said Ed Grochowski, executive director for IDEMA.
IDEMA Announce Program Highlights for DISKCON USA 2006; This Year's Theme Is the Hard Drive's 50th Anniversary; Tracks to Include Past, Present and Future Applications
Recovery speed, in particular, can be notably faster: Data can be accessed directly from disk (assuming the data still resides on disk and has not been archived to tape); it does not have to be "re-assembled" as it would in tape implementations that rely on multiplexing to boost backup performance.
Pain point of time
This large core then had enough gravity to attract a massive amount of gas from the protoplanetary disk to create a planet of Jovian proportions.
Planet formation on the fast track: growing up in a hurry
In some cases, utilities can recover a file even after an accidental hard disk format, which is a programming step that first clears the hard disk's magnetic surface and then prepares it to receive new data.
Software that makes computers easier to use; CPAs should find this list of utilities helpful for all tasks performed on hardware
These mobile media include tape; CD, DVD, and disk; and RAID disk packs, where each meets a different need.
Risks associated with transporting storage media & how to deal with them
When the collision heated and puffed up our galaxy's flat disk, it created a distended, tenuous fog of gas and stars--the so-called thick disk--that persists to the present day.
Milky Way's last major merger: new clues about galaxy formation thicken the plot
Data once written to disk by the publisher cannot be erased or overwritten but can be read many times.
Directions in optical storage
While no formal standard specifications on RAID 6 have been published to date, a disk array configuration that can provide failure protection to more than one hard disk is called RAID 6.
Improving data availability with RAID 6
Calculations indicate that most of the grains in a debris disk quickly spiral toward the star or get ejected from the system.
Dusty disks may reveal hidden worlds; on the trail of extrasolar planets

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