Sentence examples for rather than disk from inspiring English sources

We show that, some disk latency reduction techniques can be counterproductive since memory, rather than disk, is the bottleneck in improving throughput.

He created several databases, including C-Store (2005; a database that made use of columns, rather than rows, for improved performance), H-Store (2007; a database that relied on accessing a computer's memory rather than disk storage), and SciDB (2011; an array-based relational database used in machine learning and statistical processing).

The moon, suddenly recognizable as a sphere rather than a disk, took on an ominous red hue.

Stoica says that it's faster for a number of reasons including that it requires less code to process the job and it runs entirely in-memory, rather than using disk reads, which can slow down the processing.

Hoya, a maker of glass disk substrates had a talk where they discussed using 3.5-inch glass rather than aluminum disks in a Helium filled drive, offering a capability to go to 10 and possibly 12 disks in the conventional 3.5-inch form factor HDD.

Instead of dumbbells, it offers Keiser machines, which use compressed air rather than iron disks and are easier on creaky joints.

Each scheduled downlink transmission is then targeted to cover a sector zone, rather than a disk-shaped geographical region.

Games available via OnLive include Sleeping Dogs, Darksiders II and Civilisation V. Rather than use disks or downloads, OnLive streams game data to users as they play.

Thus, we conclude that CP110 is likely to form a ring on the cylinder's wall rather than a disk-like cap at the distal end of centrioles.

For sure, I know of current cases where Sun sales people are pushing expensive disk arrays rather than ZFS on cheap disk; and VMWare (which costs more than the server itself) rather than xVM; and… well you get the picture.

As stated in the Methods section, we also conducted analyses using the ONH indices derived from contour lines placed slightly interior to the anatomic disk margin rather than exactly at the disk margin.