Sentences with phrase «of mechanical hard drives»

The era of mechanical hard drives, floppy disks, and ZIP and JAZ drives is long gone.

Once 1 TB SSDs are more affordable, it'll be nice to get rid of mechanical hard drives entirely — most ultrabooks already do.

The fastest computers have Solid State Drives (SSDs) instead of mechanical hard drives.

If your budget allows, you should buy a laptop with at least a 256 GB SSD in lieu of a mechanical hard drive.

Not exact matches

Also, I have driven my car over 10,000 miles in three months and have had no mechanical, or any defects despite hard driving conditions in the mountainous regions of the desert Southwest and heavy traffic of Phoenix and Los Angeles.

It's surprisingly lively in Normal and Sport modes, and despite the added weight of the battery pack and slightly numb electro - mechanical power steering, the combination of low - slung mass and hard - working independent rear suspension make it a blast to drive, especially in the twisties.

The 11.6 - inch ASUS VivoBook X202 lineup looks to be the more budget friendly of the bunch, sporting low - power Intel Pentium, Celeron or Core i3 processors along with a mechanical hard drive and a maximum of 4 GB of RAM.

That's backed by 8 GB of mega-fast GDDR5 RAM, and a 500 GB mechanical hard drive.

A hard disk drive for example will be made of two subsystems A) the mechanical part B) the platter

Our team of lawyers and technology experts are able to forensically analyse electronic devices, computer hard drives and telephones, as well as being trained in the software packages used by prosecuting authorities such as the Police, Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the Federation against Copyright & Software Theft (FACT), the Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society, as well as numerous local government trading standards departments.

There's no need for an SSD optimization program, as unfortunate as that will be to the bottom - line of disk defragmentation companies trying to diversify their businesses as traditional mechanical hard drives become less common.

A paper that presented data from Google's data centers found that flash - based solid - state drives found that SSDs were much less likely to completely fail than mechanical hard drives: «The annual replacement rates of hard disk drives have previously been reported to be 2 - 9 %, which is high compared to the 4 - 10 % of flash drives we see being replaced in a 4 year period.»

Mechanical hard drives and mechanical / SSD hybrids meant for desktop computers have a 3.5 ″ form factor, and are about the size of a modest paperbMechanical hard drives and mechanical / SSD hybrids meant for desktop computers have a 3.5 ″ form factor, and are about the size of a modest paperbmechanical / SSD hybrids meant for desktop computers have a 3.5 ″ form factor, and are about the size of a modest paperback novel.

Our entry - level review unit arrived with an Nvidia GTX 970M graphics chip, 16 GB of RAM, and two hard drives — a 128 GB SATA drive and a 1 TB mechanical disk.

Mechanical hard drives are still very good at providing a very large amount of storage at a low cost per - gigabyte.

Many of the things you've done with typical mechanical hard drives shouldn't be done with newer solid - state drives.

This gets you a mini PC with a 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU, 500 GB mechanical hard drive, 4 GB of RAM, and Intel HD Graphics 5000.

However, if you do have a mechanical hard drive and you've just put a lot of files on the drive — for example, copying a huge database or gigabytes of PC game files — those files might be defragmented because Windows hasn't gotten around to defragmenting them yet.

That's a comfortable rate of 212 MBps, which would dwarf any laptop with a mechanical hard drive or a slower SSD.

Laying down that cash will net you a notebook packed with an Intel Core i5 - 4200U processor, 4 GB of RAM, a 500 GB mechanical hard drive with solid state cache, and a 1080p touchscreen.

For one, all the storage options rely on an Intel Rapid Hybrid system that is a mishmash of a relatively fast SSD for the OS, and a slower, mechanical hard disk drive for mass storage.

The display is unsatisfactory, the build is flimsy in some places, and the mechanical hard drive leaves much to be desired, but ultimately these corners are the right ones to cut in search of a solid budget laptop.

To be fair, that's exactly the sort of speed consumers should expect from a mechanical hard drive.

A miniscule board keeps the Bolt II from fitting more than one of each component: one GPU, one SSD, one optical drive, one mechanical hard drive, and two sticks of DDR3 memory.

A Core i3 processor, 4 GB of RAM, a small mechanical hard drive, and so on.

Two of the three systems we're comparing to the ATIV Book 9, the Inspiron 15 7000 and the Aspire R7, have mechanical hard drives paired with solid state caches.

From PC Mag: If you need terabytes of storage then mechanical hard drives are still the best choice.

Your cheap laptop of choice may have a large mechanical hard drive, which will be very slow compared to the solid - state drive you'd find in a decent laptop.

If you have a mechanical hard drive, leaving at least 15 % of it empty can reduce fragmentation in newly created files and make it easier for Windows to properly defragment the drive, which is something modern versions of Windows do automatically in the background.

Note that this section only applies to PCs with mechanical hard drives running Windows 7 or earlier versions of Windows.

Right now, Apple sells a $ 1,299 iMac with the same size display, a 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 quad - core processor, the same amount of RAM (8 GB), a better, Intel Iris Pro Graphics GPU, and a 1 TB mechanical hard drive.

Your computer is likely bottle - necked by other things — perhaps a mechanical hard drive, if you don't have solid - state storage — so you may not see a noticeable performance difference most of the time.

Our review unit arrived with an Intel Core i5 - 4570T processor, 8 GB of RAM, and a 1 TB mechanical hard drive.

These figures are solid for a mechanical hard drive and put the ioSafe Solo G3 at the upper end of the performance scale.

It features a high - end passive cooling solution and noiseless design as the unit doesn't require the use of fans or mechanical hard drives.

General system performance also impressed with PCMark 7 turning in a solid score of 4,528 in spite of its massive 1 TB mechanical hard drive.

Owing to the SSDs» ability to access data electronically instead of traditional electromechanically, they prove to be superior both in mechanical ruggedness and speeds in comparison to the hard drives.

The mechanical hard drive, meanwhile, gave us average read speed of 115MBps, and write speed of 111MBps.

One excellent example of this double - upgrade is Asus» G750, a 17.3 - inch mammoth packing an Intel Core i7 - 4200HQ quad - core, cutting - edge Nvidia GTX 770M GPU, 16 GB of RAM, and not one but two hard drives: a 256 GB solid - state drive for performance, and a 1 TB mechanical drive for mass storage.

All versions of the Flex 2 15 come standard with a 500 GB mechanical hard drive that's paired with an 8 GB solid state cache.

If you're not using a USB 3.0 port, or you're transferring files from a mechanical hard drive, those types of items can slow the drive down.

A solid state drive doesn't possess the same moving parts as a traditional, mechanical hard disk drive, which makes it a particularly good choice for an external drive that's going to spend its time in and out of luggage, and otherwise being used on the go.

Credit: Jeremy Lips / Tom's GuideThe Performance blade resides at the top of the configuration, housing the GPU, while the left - bottom compartment, dubbed the Storage blade, can hold up to 3 SSDs, two mechanical hard drives and an optical drive if necessary.

A 3 TB mechanical disk provides bulk storage, filling one of the three hard drive bays.

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Internally, it features an Intel Core i7 - 7700HQ processor, an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card, 16 GB of RAM, a 256 GB SSD, and a 2 TB mechanical hard drive.

Hoping to target enthusiast - level gamers, the desktop offers a myriad of configurations including an overclockable Intel Core i7 K - series processor and four storage bays that can accommodate PCIe SSDs or mechanical hard drives.