Definition of hard drive
: a data-storage device consisting of a drive and one or more hard disks
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Storage remains generous compared to the competition: a 1TB, 5,400rpm hard drive for files, plus a 128GB SSD to speed up your OS and applications.
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By contrast, when law enforcement officials execute a search warrant, the government goes in and seizes a broader set of materials — like hard drives and the contents of filing cabinets — then sorts through them itself.
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Three other search warrants covered Manafort's business email address, two unnamed email accounts and a hard drive.
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They were taken by a forensic photographer known by the pseudonym Caesar who worked for the Syrian military and smuggled them out of the country on hard drives in 2013.
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That was great news for Bell, who had his hands full figuring out how to get Pegasus Prime to run fluidly off a CD-ROM (on Mac, the Journeyman Project games installed most of the content to a user's hard drive).
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The prosecutor showed the court one of the gruesome videos found on Madsen's hard drive.
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Information about how long Lee was allegedly in possession of the photos and videos was not available from police who said the information was found on external hard drives.
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Prosecutors often require analysts and investigators to look at each image and video saved on a suspect's computer or hard drive.
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First Known Use of hard drive
1982
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Definition of hard drive for English Language Learners
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computers : a device that is used for storing computer data and that contains one or more hard disks
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: a data storage device of a computer containing one or more hard disks
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