disk drive

noun

Computers.

1. a device that, using an access mechanism under program control, enables data to be read from or written on a spinning magnetic disk, magnetic disk pack, floppy disk, or optical disk.

disk drive

noun

1. computing the controller and mechanism for reading and writing data on computer disks See also disk

disk drive

1. Computer Science,  A device that reads data stored on a magnetic or optical disk and writes data onto the disk for storage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of disk drive¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

Rare-earth elements are used extensively in artificial intelligence, including disk drives, cooling servers and especially semiconductor fabrication.

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The company has benefited from a spike in demand for hard disk drives, or HDDs, driven by cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

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With AI, the storage companies have a new end market because cloud hyperscalers are buying more disk drives to support the massive amounts of content being generated by AI models.

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Western Digital is one of the largest players in enterprise hard disk drives and is gaining pricing power amid this backdrop, Travis Prentice, chief investment officer of the Informed Momentum Company, recently told MarketWatch.

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Analysts have continually updated their estimates for storage stocks over the last several weeks due to hard disk drive demand.

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