Floppy disk spins its way toward graveyard
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ATLANTAâLong the most common way to store letters, homework and other computer files, the floppy disk is going the way of the horse upon the arrival of the car: it&#39;ll hang around, but never hold the same relevance in everyday life.
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When you have hundreds or thousands of disk drives spinning continuously, some number of failures are unavoidable. Understanding the risks, reviewing service commitments, and being prepared for the inevitable is a must.
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Computer failure points to the challenge of aging equipment.
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LOWELL -- Someone pitches a laptop computer, and what happens to the plastic casing? Chances are it ends up in a landfill, adding to the toxic swill.
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There is something rather antiquated about many of the server clusters used today by engineers, scientists and media fiends. Their high-powered computing machines are often cobbled together over many days
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DVD-sized optical discs can hold up to 1 terabyte of data--but won't be on the market for another three to five years.
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Your work computer just suffered a major meltdown. Maybe the operating system failed, or a virus crashed the hard drive.
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com November 4, 2004, 6:00 PM PT. Organizations are replacing aging servers with newer more-powerful boxes, often Linux--based, and theyâre also investing in storage.
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At Fry's this afternoon, where I bought two 500GB Firewire drives. Which it turns out I needed because after I got home all three external drives attached to my desktop were reported as damaged beyond repair by the new Mac OS. Coincidence? Lucky that I had exactly the hardware I needed to dig out of the mess? Who knows!
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COMPUTER chain PC World is dropping floppy disks from sale due to plummeting demand. It will no longer stock the computer storage devices once supplies are sold.  (c) 2007 Liverpool Echo. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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Fujitsu continues to push the limits of moble storage, announcing Monday 250GB and 300GB 2.5-inch laptop hard drives that utilize perpendicular magnetic recording technology. The Serial ATA drives spin at 4200RPM and have low power consumption, while improving shock tolerance.
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Drives in PCs and media centres from 2005
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A battle over next-generation disc standards could create a rift in console game storage. Which side are you on? There are few who contest the fact that the acceptance of CD-ROM and then DVD-ROM standards
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Legal wrangling over competing hard drive technologies continues.
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This is where computers go to die a green death.
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Long the most common way to store letters, homework and other computer files, the floppy disk is going the way of the horse upon the arrival of the car: it'll hang around but never hold the same relevance in everyday life.
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For the first time in more years than I care to think about, I have been playing around with PCs that have no hard drives.