How to Use hard drive in a Sentence

hard drive

noun
  • Would my laptop and the hard drive be a good way to take my music with me?
    Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
  • Any such party would have required access to both her Qualtrics account and her hard drive.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024
  • When the hard drive with all the full-resolution files lands in the editing bay, they can be swapped into the edit with the click of a button.
    Brent Rose, Wired, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Plugging in an external hard drive can alleviate this problem in minutes.
    David Nield, Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2021
  • From a tip of just one or two images or videos, investigators frequently find troves of thousands, or more, on a suspect’s hard drive.
    New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
  • My hard drive was gone, my 27-inch iMac reduced, effectively, to a monitor.
    Abby Schwartz, Wired, 20 Jan. 2021
  • It’s become such a downtown fixture over the decades that it’s had to be upgraded from cassette to MiniDisc and now, a hard drive containing the sounds.
    John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The affidavit filed in court does not mention a video or photos reviewed by law enforcement that show someone taking a computer or hard drive from Pelosi's office.
    Hannah Knowles, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Jan. 2021
  • The affidavit filed in court does not mention a video or photos reviewed by law enforcement that show someone taking a computer or hard drive from Pelosi’s office.
    Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Bitcoins have to be stored in a digital wallet, either online through an exchange like Coinbase, or offline on a hard drive using specialized software.
    CBS News, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The researchers hypothesize that the bug stayed hidden for so long because the vulnerable driver isn't stored on a computer's hard drive full-time, like your printer drivers are.
    Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 11 Feb. 2021
  • That will copy all programs, data and the Windows operating system from the SSD to the hard drive (see tinyurl.com/y4vxf3mp).
    Steve Alexander Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 24 Jan. 2021
  • Portable hard drives are built around the 2.5-inch drive mechanisms that once were common in laptops, and these top out at 5TB or 6TB.
    John Burek, PCMAG, 10 July 2024
  • In a few years your hard drive may be full of such squishy stuff.
    IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
  • If the main hard drive or SSD on the Mac fails, the clone can be used to get you up and running again.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Tap or click for six ways to check for a failing hard drive.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The rest of the songs are half-finished somewhere on someone's hard drive.
    Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 13 July 2021
  • Tim Miller icily dubbed him) posted some of the emails found on Hunter’s hard drive.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • However, Gary Harris lost the ball out of bounds on a hard drive to the rim, and Wood sealed the game with a floater in the lane.
    John Denton, Chron, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Of all his shelved hard drives, however, Wilcha’s movie about the record store felt like the one that got away.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
  • Don’t keep songs captive in a hard drive, put it out there and see what happens.
    Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Enlarge / Maps this detailed can take up a lot of hard drive space.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The best way is to download your photos and videos to a computer hard drive.
    David Nield, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2023
  • One option is to see if your PC's hard drive can be salvaged.
    Steve Alexander, Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
  • All the other stuff goes into Google Drive, and onto that same hard drive.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 18 Feb. 2024
  • This will get you a faster processor, more RAM, and a larger hard drive.
    Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
  • Use the File Explorer window to pick the right file on your local hard drive.
    Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Picking the right hard drive comes down to balancing three things: speed, size, and price.
    Scott Gilbertson, Wired, 9 July 2021
  • Both iPhone and iOS encrypt your hard drive by default.
    Matt Burgess, Wired, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Ryan Tedder’s hard drive is a repository of some of the biggest hits of the past two decades.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2023

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