Death of the disk drive With the 1998 release of the iMac, Apple did away with the floppy disk drive, leaving only a rewritable CD drive.
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The disk drive maker's revenue coming in slightly above forecasts.
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Is the "disk drive" the iPhone 5C data the FBI wants?
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The disk drive maker's revenue was in line with Wall Street forecasts.
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Revenue for the hard disk drive maker was essentially in line with forecasts.
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A 32GB Optane memory stick and 244TB hard disk drive costs just $216.
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Remember when people whined about the iMac not having a floppy disk drive?
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Disk drive company Western Digital just reported its earnings for the December quarter.
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Hard-disk drive maker Seagate jumped 21.8 percent to $29.35 on strong preliminary results.
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The system was making waves because it purported to contain a quantum disk drive.
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For two decades, every computer came with a floppy disk drive to load programs.
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Hard-disk drive maker Seagate jumped 1543 percent to $28 on strong preliminary results.
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Would you make some OJ for me and feed it through the floppy disk drive?
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Rival disk drive maker Western Digital is also seeing some pressure based on Seagate's outlook.
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So I decided to replace its spinning hard disk drive with a solid state one.
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The U.S. hard disk drive maker has maintained Toshiba cannot sell the unit without its approval.
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Soon Apple added the floppy disk drive and the VisiCalc spreadsheet program and the boom was on.
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"We view flash as sustaining technology for storage array vendors and disruptive to hard disk drive vendors."
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Seagate Technology — Seagate will cut about 1,600 jobs, or three percent of the hard disk drive maker's workforce.
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The disk drive maker's move comes only a few weeks after it announced the reduction of 1,600 jobs.
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This little $70 chip makes a cheap hard disk drive run as fast as a solid state drive.
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Rival disk drive maker Western Digital (WDC) was also seeing pressure on its stock based on Seagate's outlook.
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American computer data-storage company and one of the largest computer hard disk drive makers in the world.
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Seagate Technology (STX) plans to cut about 1,600 jobs, or 3 percent of the hard disk drive maker's workforce.
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Spectrograms of whale song, left, an unknown "narrow-band" noise, center, and the recorder's own hard disk drive, right.
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This allowed the company to offer semiconductor based flash storage in areas where its disk drive technology was slowing.
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Seagate Technology — Seagate is cutting 6,500 jobs or about 14 percent of the hard disk drive maker's global workforce.
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Western Digital — The hard disk drive maker raised its guidance for the fiscal fourth quarter that ended July 1.
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Some of the modules are straightforward, bringing things like speakers, additional storage and a disk drive to the system.
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The disk drive maker claims a sale would violate the terms of a joint manufacturing agreement between the two.
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I'm just a lowly man with a portable USB hard disk drive that I resurrected from the trash heap.
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Seagate jumped 16.2 percent to $523 after the hard-disk drive maker estimated quarterly results that beat analysts' expectations.
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Favorable NAND supply underpinned fellow hard disk drive (HDD) maker, Western Digital Corporation's acquisition of NAND provider, Sandisk Corp.
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Kalyx owns nine buildings in four states, including what was once a disk drive manufacturing facility in Eugene, Ore.
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For comparison, a standard 3.5-inch floppy disk from back in the day typically had a 1.44 megabyte disk drive.
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Seagate's last two quarters were disappointing for the market and the disk drive maker was seen as being too commoditized.
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Western Digital – The hard disk drive maker won a court order allowing it to access Toshiba databases and semiconductor samples.
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He took the whole disk drive—around 80 MB of data—and put it all on a goddamn VHS tape.
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Hard-disk drive maker Seagate Technology declined 1.15% following Susquehanna's price target cut on worse-than-expected memory pricing weakness.
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The hard disk drive has a spin speed of 7,200 rpm and features a 256MB cache size for faster loading times.
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"Few stocks embody that wild ride better than the commodity semiconductor names and disk drive makers," the "Mad Money " host said.
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"Few stocks embody that wild ride better than the commodity semiconductor names and disk drive makers," the "Mad Money " host said.
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Marvell Technology — Marvell will pay Carnegie Mellon $750 million to settle a long running patent dispute involving hard disk drive technology.
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That comes ahead of a court hearing on Friday in which the disk drive maker seeks to halt the auction process.
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Seagate totally changed the disk drive business and our investors, as a consequence, wind up going up while the market was collapsing.
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Disk drive and flash memory maker Western Digital has been red-hot since the company preannounced better-than-expected earnings last week.
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Western Digital fell 6.7 percent and Seagate Technology dropped 9.2 percent after Evercore ISI downgraded shares of the hard-disk drive makers.
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In Windows 10, right-click on your hard disk drive in File Explorer, then pick Properties and open up the Tools tab.
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Operations like boot times and file transfers will see the biggest benefit when upgrading to SSD over a spinning hard disk drive.
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The first night I had it in my possession, I popped it into the disk drive and gave the campaign a whirl.
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You'd shuffle through them, find the one you wanted, load it into a super loud and finicky whirring disk drive, and play.
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If it's a disk drive, wouldn't it obviously be a disk, and wouldn't he know to push a button to eject it?
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Seagate Technology (STX) – Seagate was upgraded to "buy" from "hold" at Stifel Nicolaus, pointing to improving fundamentals for the disk drive maker.
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But if you're loading off a hard disk drive as opposed to a solid state drive, your games were already loading slowly.
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The hard disk drive maker cited more customer enthusiasm for its product mix and revenue from a new cross-licensing agreement with Samsung.
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Other perks include a striking red backlit keyboard, an HDMI output, a webcam/microphone combo, and a headphone jack (sorry, no disk drive).
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Western Digital (WDC) earned an adjusted $1.18 per share, 14 cents above estimates, and the disk drive maker's revenue was also above estimates.
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The original BOLT arrived with the choice between a 500 GB or 1 TB hard disk drive, and four tuners, for comparison's sake.
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In the space of two minutes, you'll see a Sega Game Gear, a 3.5-inch disk drive, VHS tracking issues and tragic attire.
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They also perform up to 20 times faster than a typical hard disk drive, meaning you actually get an overall better computer experience.
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Western Digital — The hard disk drive maker was warned by Japan's Toshiba not to interfere with the planned sale of Toshiba's chip unit.
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Apple also famously moved away from the floppy-disk drive with its iMac G3 in 1998, in favor of the CD-ROM drive.
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The storage (hard disk drive or HDD, or solid-state drive or SSD) will determine how much space for files the laptop has.
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It was the first Apple machine to incorporate a built-in 5.25-inch floppy disk drive and high-resolution graphics built into the motherboard.
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It featured the Altair 2100 microcomputer with an Intel 21988 CPU (a variant of the 21997 design) and an 1003-inch floppy disk drive.
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Western Digital — The hard disk drive maker may buy a 20 percent stake in Toshiba's semiconductor business, according to Japan's Nikkei business daily newspaper.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Slow Recovery on HDD Weakness: The IDR reflects our expectations of MMI's continued vulnerability to the hard disk drive (HDD) market.
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Western Digital's stock plunged 4.08 percent in the extended session, despite the disk drive company beating analyst expectations on its second quarter financial results.
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Western Digital – The hard disk drive maker and Toshiba struck a partial settlement of its dispute over Toshiba's planned sale of its semiconductor division.
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And I wanted to do it with Seagate because the disk drive industry had been going through this hot and cold cycle up and down.
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Toshiba had just announced the launch of a small-format disk drive that would give the Apple MP3 player a crucial advantage over the competition.
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Western Digital — Western Digital cut its current-quarter profit outlook, due to debt costs related to its acquisition of rival disk drive maker SanDisk. Questions?
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Western Digital – Western Digital was rated "underperform," in new coverage at Wedbush, based on continued margin pressure for the disk drive and flash memory maker.
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Cramer also spoke with Stephen Milligan, the CEO of Western Digital, a data storage player and one of the world's biggest hard disk drive manufacturers.
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Western Digital – The hard disk drive maker is seeking a court injunction to keep partner Toshiba from selling its chip business without Western Digital's consent.
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Western Digital – The hard disk drive maker may or may not have a deal to buy Toshiba's chip unit, in a long-running takeover process.
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The hard disk drive maker cited more customer enthusiasm for its product mix and revenue from a new cross licensing agreement with Samsung, among other factors.
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Hard-disk drive makers Western Digital Corp dropped 0.6% and Seagate Technology dipped 0.4%, after Susquehanna cut price targets citing worse-than-expected memory pricing weakness.
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The disk drive maker said it immediately informed the Internal Revenue Service of the issue and is giving employees two-year memberships in Experian's ProtectMyID service.
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Seagate Technology – The hard disk drive maker will provide up to $1.25 billion in financing as part of the group that is buying Toshiba's chip unit.
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Western Digital (WDC) reported adjusted quarterly profit of $3.95 per share, 16 cents above estimates, with the disk drive maker's revenue coming in slightly above forecasts.
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I used the gain to move to NYC, start an ecommerce incubator (Brand Farm), and purchase stock in Nike, Oracle, Apple, and disk drive firm Iomega.
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Salesforce's chief medical officer Ashwini Zenooz is a radiologist with an ancient computer at home that she keeps around because it still has a disk drive.
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The choke point was the A: prompt, your disk drive prompt, which was the access to your information, and they controlled that and they monetized it.
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Seagate has revealed a new hard disk drive that can hold a massive 12TB, so if you're looking for a huge storage option, this is probably it.
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A disk drive comes standard on this laptop, allowing you to play DVDs or burn CDs if you're feeling nostalgic — not many laptops have that option anymore.
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Many (upgraded) 400 and 800 owners could also take advantage of these titles, as none of them required more than 48KB, though some required a disk drive.
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Western Digital (WDC) came in 8 cents above estimates with adjusted quarterly profit of 79 cents per share, and the disk drive maker's revenue also exceeded forecasts.
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Neodymium is the workhorse behind the high-performance magnets found in nearly every hard disk drive, audio speaker, wind turbine generator, cordless tool, and electric vehicle motor.
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Carnegie Mellon had sued Marvell in March 2009 over patents issued that related to how accurately hard disk drive circuits read data from high-speed magnetic disks.
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Shares of Western Digital Corp fell 5.5 percent and Seagate Technology PLC shares dropped 7.6 percent after Evercore ISI downgraded shares of the hard-disk drive makers.
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The hard disk drive maker has maintained that Toshiba – whose Japan chip plant is jointly run by the two companies – cannot sell the unit without its approval.
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Seagate Technology – Barclays downgraded the hard disk drive maker's stock to "underweight" from "equal weight," while cutting its price target for the stock to $40 from $49.
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There was the 1998 release of the iMac that — to some customers' horror — did away with the floppy disk drive, featuring only a re-writable CD drive.
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Soon, I got my own Mac — a beige Mac Plus with no hard drive, requiring me to constantly swap floppies in and out of the disk drive.
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Western Digital (WDC) missed estimates by six cents with adjusted quarterly profit of $1.45 per share, while the disk drive maker saw revenue fall slightly below analyst forecasts.
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Let's say the bank had tied a ribbon round the disk drive and said 'don't make me cut this ribbon, because you'll make me cut it many times.
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Let's say the bank had tied a ribbon round the disk drive and said 'don't make me cut this ribbon because you'll make me cut it many times'.
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Let's say the bank had tied a ribbon round the disk drive and said, 'Don't make me cut this ribbon because you'll make me cut it many times.
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"Let's say the bank had tied a ribbon round the disk drive and said, 'Don't make me cut this ribbon because you'll make me cut it many times.'"
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Zdziarski's findings deal with what happens to that data after it reaches the phone, particularly when it's stored on the phone's local disk drive or remote iCloud storage.
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Western Digital – The hard disk drive maker will raise its bid for Toshiba's semiconductor unit to two trillion yen, or about $18.2 billion, according to Japanese newspaper reports.
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And like eliminating the floppy disk drive from the iMac and instead putting the CD-ROM drive in is the thing that drove adoption of the CD-ROM.
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A decade later, Apple released the MacBook Air with no disk drive at all (and teens everywhere said goodbye to the tradition of burning mixtapes for one another).
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The analysts pointed to flash memory taking a significant amount of market share from hard disk drives, after disk drive maker Seagate Technology cut its third quarter revenue outlook.
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Hard-disk drive maker Seagate Technology said it would cut about 1,600 jobs, or 3 percent of its workforce, as the company looks to rein in costs amid waning demand.
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The latest deal to feel the chill from Washington was a $3.78 billion investment in the American hard disk drive maker Western Digital by the Tsinghua Unisplendour Corporation of China.
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Western Digital — The hard disk drive maker raised its current quarter earnings forecast to $9.93 to $1.05 per share, compared to the current consensus estimate of 90 cents a share.
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Sure, it was thin, said bloggers at the time, but it lacked an optical disk drive and relied too much on wireless connectivity since it didn't have an ethernet port.
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Western Digital — The hard disk drive maker and Japan's Toshiba settled their long-running dispute over Toshiba's planned sale of its memory chip unit to Bain Capital for $18 billion.
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Western Digital – The hard disk drive maker is seeking $464 million from Apple (AAPL) to help finance a bid for Toshiba's chip making unit, according to the Kyodo news service.
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Once you're in the installer, set up MacOS on a blank partition on your disk—either format the one already created on Windows for APFS, or use an external disk drive.
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Western Digital – The hard disk drive maker and Toshiba are said to be near resolution of the legal dispute over the sale of Toshiba's semiconductor unit, according to a Reuters report.
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Western Digital – J.P. Morgan Securities began coverage on the hard disk drive maker with an "overweight" rating, noting its prominent market share positions in data storage solutions and solid-state drives.
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The latest Chinese deal to feel the chill from Washington was a planned $3.78 billion investment by the Tsinghua Unisplendour Corporation of China in the American hard disk drive maker Western Digital.
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It isn't surprising that the theory works well for linear businesses, as it was originally based on Christensen's research into shifts into linear companies such as disk-drive manufacturers and steel mills.
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The disks shrank over time — from eight inches to 5.25 inches to 3.5 inches — then abruptly fell out of favor, most notably when the iMac debuted without a disk drive in 1998.
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The disks shrank over time — from eight inches to 5.25, and then to 3.5 — before abruptly falling out of favor, most notably when the iMac debuted without a disk drive in 1998.
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Western Digital – Evercore rates the hard disk drive maker "outperform" in new coverage, noting the continued high demand for storage drives at data centers and the company's strong position in flash memory.
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The disks shrank over time — from eight inches to 5.25 inches to 3.5 inches — then abruptly fell out of favor, most notably when the iMac was introduced without a disk drive in 1998.
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Western Digital – The hard disk drive maker said it plans to invest in a new memory chip production line with partner Toshiba, despite Toshiba's statement that it would go ahead on its own.
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Photo: Western DigitalThe good old external hard disk drive is one option—plug it into your old computer, copy everything on to it, then plug it into your new computer and copy everything across.
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Western Digital – The disk drive maker and its partners are still on hold about a possible purchase of Toshiba's chip unit, with Toshiba now saying it is in ongoing talks with three potential buyers.
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He stopped buying CDs three years later and now he doesn't even own an external disk drive—much less a boombox—to play them on, preferring to stream all his music through Apple Music.
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The tech rally was further ignited when analysts predicted that Western Digital will say good things when it updates its guidance on Thursday, which is could be good news for the beleaguered disk-drive makers.
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The hard-disk drive maker, which has been expanding into cloud storage products to make up for a declining PC market, also blamed its decision to not aggressively participate in the low-capacity notebook market.
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In A New Hope, Luke Skywalker, who is tech-savvy enough to be trusted to help purchase a droid and then clean it up, seems to be stumped by the disk drive on R2-D2.
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While we've seen similar and even dramatically bigger SSDs (Seagate has a 60TB solid state drive), the 16TB hard drive would be the single largest magnetic disk drive ever if it actually makes it to market.
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According to the book, with a little bit of match powder and nail polish, you could create a "bomb" out of a 3.5-inch floppy drive that would successfully fry the disk drive on a computer.
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Seagate Technology — JPMorgan Chase upgraded the disk drive maker's stock to "neutral" from "underweight," owing to a slowing decline in sales of server drives as well as reduced exposure for Seagate to the personal computer market.
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Seagate Technology (STX) got a positive mention in Barron's, which said the hard disk drive maker's 7.6 percent yield is enticing and that it would benefit from increased demand for large drives used in data centers.
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The iMac dumped the floppy disk drive, the MacBook Air dropped the CD/DVD drive, the iPhone 5 killed the 30-pin connector, and the new MacBook eschews every port for a single USB-C port.
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Investment idea: Short Western Digital bonds, long its senior secured bank debt Westhus deemed Western Digital a "melting ice cube business" thanks to its dated hard disk drive business, which accounts for about half of the company's sales.
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But for more money (pricing not yet available), you can add different modules like the HP Audio Module for speakers, an optical disk drive, and different top panels with wireless charging or touch-sensitive buttons for video conferencing.
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A US$4.75bn term loan B for hard-disk drive maker Western Digital had to widen pricing on the dual currency term loans backing its US$19bn of flash storage provider SanDisk this week to clear the market.
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Seagate Technology – The hard disk drive maker was cut to "hold" from "buy" by analysts at Jefferies, who think the company will struggle to ramp up production of key 10TB drives and will also face increased price competition.
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When I was in my mid-20s and had just gotten a job in venture capital, I read a piece on Alan Shugart, the larger-than-life founder of Seagate, one of the most successful disk-drive companies.
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The hard disk drive maker maintains that Toshiba – its partner in a Japanese chip plant – does not have the right to sell its semiconductor unit without its permission, and has also put in a bid for the unit.
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I'm doing this because I came out of the security business and this befuddles me that you haven't looked at the source code and you don't really understand the disk drive, at least to answer my dumb questions if you will.
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Ownership changes have also stalled a US$205m four-year financing for Singapore-based disk-drive parts maker MMI Holdings, which is also seeking a waiver on existing debt after private equity giant KKR agreed to sell it to a Chinese consortium.
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Click here to view original GIFPhoto via GettyIf you bought a PC with a disk drive between 2003 and 2008—the golden age of Livestrong bracelets and trucker hats—you might be eligible for $10 thanks to an antitrust class action suit.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 4 (Reuters) - The following are mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process: — U.S.-based hard-disk drive maker Western Digital Corp to acquire outstanding shares of SanDisk, designer of data storage products (approved Feb.
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So that means that you can, in fact, remove from the phone all of its memory, all of its nonvolatile memory, its disk drive if you will, and set it over here and have a true copy of it to conduct infinite number of attacks on.
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If you do plan to get an Apple laptop, the company has a 13-inch MacBook Pro model that can be configured with a one-terabyte hard disk drive and others that can be upgraded (usually for about $500) to a full terabyte of solid-state storage.
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Toshiba needs to sell the chip unit to plug a giant hole in its finances caused by the failure of the conglomerate's U.S. nuclear business, but the deal has snagged on such issues as antitrust concerns if the U.S. disk-drive maker were a major owner.
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Last month, one of the men, Lam Wing-kee, returned to Hong Kong and held a news conference detailing how he had been held for months and repeatedly interrogated by Chinese agents without access to family or lawyers, then told he had to hand over a hard disk drive with the shop's customer database.
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But it did mean that the console dropped support for the PS2 Hard Disk Drive, a 40GB drive that could speed up load times in some games and was was required for a few — most notably Final Fantasy XI. The lack of HDD compatibility also meant that the PS2 Slim was unable to run the PS2 version of Linux, which proved considerably less controversial than when Sony patched it out of the PS3.
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