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 Cloud storage and external hard drives aren't mutually exclusive. New Atlas, 9 July 2024 Left at the scene was a handgun, two magazines, and numerous electronics, including a phone, laptop, tablet and hard drives. Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2024 The tipster was in possession of a small red hard drive containing thousands of documents that revealed widespread abuse by legislators of their parliamentary expense accounts. Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 4 June 2024 At the same time, the computing revolution that led to solid-state hard drives and smartphones in every pocket vastly increased the amount of data that each observatory in a network of radio telescopes could record and process. Seth Fletcher, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2022 See all Example Sentences for hard drive 

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Word History

First Known Use

1982, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of hard drive was in 1982

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“Hard drive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20drive. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.

Kids Definition

hard drive

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

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