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disk drive

a mechanical device in a COMPUTER which records and retrieves data from a rotating magnetic or vinyl disk.

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This hard disk drives market analysis is supported with 200 data tables and figures that provide key statistics on the state of the HDD industry and is a valuable source of guidance and direction for companies and individuals interested in the market.

Hard Disk Drives Market 2020 Outlook and 12 Company Profiles Reviewed

Lastly, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the hard disk drive, contributions are being accepted to preserve the history and legacy of magnetic disk storage.

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

and looks like an internal disk drive to the client.

Client computer storage consolidation

designs, manufactures and markets robotic systems, motion control and machine vision technology for global markets including automotive, consumer electronics, consumer goods, disk drive, food, industrial tooling, medical devices, and pharmaceutical.

Adept Technology and Cool Clean Technologies Announce OEM Relationship; Initial $500,000 Order Positions Adept as Robotic and Control Supplier in Innovative Disk Drive Cleaning System

But I think there are some interesting trends and they are--as disk capacities get larger in these RAID arrays and in particular as disk drives get smaller and you start to have a larger number of disk drives in arrays--people are concerned about multiple disk-drive failures.

SAS: now and in the future

Disk controllers based on Serial Attached SCSI will connect with both low-cost, high capacity Serial ATA disk drives and with high performance, dual-port Serial Attached SCSI drives.

What drives your data center? Creating graded pools of storage with serial attached SCSI. (Tape/Disk/Optical Storage)

The first hard disk drives with 80 gigabytes on each side of a 3.

Disk companies pricing themselves out of business-again: lessons of the past still unlearned

This is a strong, seasoned team that has been instrumental in the growth of our Disk Drive Components Division," said Wayne Fortun, Hutchinson Technology's president and chief executive officer.

Hutchinson Technology Announces Promotions of Officers; Richard Penn Named Senior Vice President and President of Disk Drive Components Division, Peter Ollmann Named Vice President of Operations and Richard Fielder Named Vice President of Engineering

While the cost of hybrid disk drives may slightly increase with the addition of OneNAND, any increase will be mitigated by several factors, including lower maintenance costs, 95 percent power savings when the disk is not spinning, faster boot time and substantially increased reliability.

Samsung Teams With Microsoft to Develop First Hybrid Hard Drive With NAND Flash Memory

By setting up a synchronous mirror of your disk drives, you have a complete mirror of your data at all times.

The what and why of virtual tape: hard disk augments that storage standby. (Storage Networking)

Compellent's open-systems hardware architecture enables the use of both SATA and Fibre Channel disk drives within the same system - optimizing the balance between performance and cost while delivering unlimited scalability and long term investment protection.

Compellent Announces Another Method of Modular Growth For Its Storage Area Network

Hitachi is committed to being the pre-eminent supplier of disk drives to the consumer electronics marketplace.

Hitachi to Invest up to $500 Million in New China Disk Drive Mega-Manufacturing Center