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Definition of hard disk
: a rigid metal disk coated with a magnetic material on which data for a computer can be stored also : hard drive
Examples of hard disk in a Sentence
Remember to save the file to your hard disk.
Recent Examples on the Web Adding just three qubits to Google’s challenger machine would have exhausted Summit’s hard disks.
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The Economist, "IBM challenges a recent result in quantum computing," 31 Oct. 2019 Batch computing—running programs one after the other—rarely required that a computer be able to permanently store information, and many mainframes did not have any permanent storage device (whether a tape or a hard disk) attached to them.
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Richard Jensen, Ars Technica, "Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure," 29 Aug. 2019 Another round of fingerprinting uses a PowerShell script to gather details about the visitors' devices, including their operating system, user name, video card, hard disk, and any antivirus products.
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Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, "New ransomware infections are the worst drive-by attacks in recent memory," 27 June 2019 If your point of comparison is conventional hard disks, this doesn't matter too much; a good SSD will typically have five or six times the throughput and 10,000 times the IOPS of even a very fast rust disk.
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Jim Salter, Ars Technica, "Digging into the new features in OpenZFS post-Linux migration," 20 June 2019 Phase-change memory seems to offer the best of both worlds: the speed of current RAM with the permanence of a hard disk.
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John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Memristors built with 2-nanometer-thick parts," 14 Nov. 2018 James Somers’ story is full of terrific anecdotes about Google’s early days:
When a car goes around a turn, more ground must be covered by the outside wheels; likewise, the outer edge of a spinning hard disk moves faster than the inner one.
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Casey Newton, The Verge, "Google’s appearance before Congress will mark a turning point for its CEO," 5 Dec. 2018 For someone who may need to take their stuff on the go, a portable solid state drive like the Samsung T5 is a noticeably faster and more reliable way to move around files than a traditional hard disk drive.
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Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, "The Ars Holiday Gift Guide 2018—good tech for the power user in your life," 4 Dec. 2018 The Guardia di Finanza also seized the hard disks of about 10 Autostrade managers that could be persons of interest in the investigation and may have played a role in the management of the bridge, the person said.
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Donato Paolo Mancini, WSJ, "Offices of Italian Bridge Manager Autostrade Searched in Three Cities," 23 Aug. 2018
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