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hard drive
[ hahrd drahyv ]
noun
- (loosely) a drive for a computer, as a traditional hard disk drive (HDD) or another drive serving a similar function, as opposed to a very small, portable flash drive.
hard drive
noun
- computing (on a computer) the mechanism that handles the reading, writing, and storage of data on the hard disk
hard drive
- A disk drive that reads data stored on hard disks.
- Also called hard disk drive
hard drive
- The bulk of the memory of a personal computer is magnetically stored on hard disks that constitute the hard drive. Information in the hard drive is durable, in that it remains magnetically stored when the computer is turned off. ( See magnetic memory .)
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Origin of hard drive1
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Example Sentences
The hard drive on a BBC laptop was erased and memory cards were wiped clean.
We got together, looked at old pictures, and put together these old songs from our hard drive.
“Sometimes stuff just happens,” Lerner emailed the IRS techs in 2011 as they tried to salvage her hard drive.
The hard drive was sent to the U.S. for the FBI lab to expose its secrets.
Brezler then remembered an external hard drive he had brought home from Afghanistan.
We've got a hard drive before us, and every man must be fit as a fiddle.
But it used to be impossible to fly or go to the moon or get a hard-drive with more than a few kilobytes of storage.
I kept hitting it, until the keyboard fell off, exposing the motherboard and the hard-drive.
They tell you outside that it is a hard drive, all the way from twenty-five to thirty miles to Acoma.
Many a hard drive, the hunt drive of the Men-kind, has come to nothing because of us—because we never sleep.
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