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

But when a fire destroys part of Al’s home and a hard drive goes missing, mistrust begins to breed between the two, drawing in Peck’s teenage daughter Sara and threatening to undo both their relationship and their role in a larger criminal enterprise. —Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 7 Aug. 2025

Recovery professionals should pursue the following options: • Using the external USB drive as a recovery source • Extracting data from the original hard drive Even if these drives were formatted or reused, fragments of the database file may still be retrievable. —Chongwei Chen, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025

Apple stopped shipping spinning hard drives entirely when the last of the Intel iMacs went away. —Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2025

This model is the 2024 model and only has 4GB of RAM and a 128GB hard drive. —Charles Jefferies, PC Magazine, 31 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1982, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for hard drive

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

Kids Definition

hard drive

noun

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