disk crash

British  

noun

1. computing the failure of a disk storage system, usually resulting from the read/write head touching the moving disk surface and causing mechanical damage

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Example Sentences

The city said Thursday that the documents are “unrecoverable due to a multiple hard disk crash” of a contractor’s computer server.

From Seattle Times

The military, after first announcing a flying disk crash, quickly revised their story, saying it was actually an experimental weather balloon.

From The Guardian

This obviously leads to the question of what happens if you have a disk crash and have to rebuild your disk directory using Disk Utility or a third-party utility: how do you reboot to rebuild the disk if the disk you're trying to reboot from is the one that's broken?

From The Guardian

"Three lusers lost their files in last night's disk crash."

From Project Gutenberg