hard drive

noun

: a data-storage device consisting of a drive and one or more hard disks

Examples of hard drive in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

On the first hard drive, detectives found photos and videos shot inside the home in which two women appeared to be dead. — Frederick Sutton Sinclair, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

The team highlighted that whether photos, videos, or documents; in large data centers, enormous amounts of data are stored on hard drives. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026

Fuerza Regida is asking for the return of 22 live videos stolen from the group’s director — and offering a reward for the hard drives or memory cards containing the footage. — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2026

The Michelangelo virus, which proliferated in the nineties and was programmed to attack on Michelangelo’s birthday, had destroyed his hard drive. — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1982, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for hard drive

• alive
• archive
• arrive
• beehive
• connive
• contrive
• deprive
• derive
• khedive
• revive
• survive
• dive

Kids Definition

hard drive

noun

: a device for storing computer data that consists of one or more hard disks in a sealed case