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

She was found guilty of helping an outside computer expert, an associate of Lindell, gain unauthorized access to Mesa County’s Dominion election equipment in 2021 and make copies of its hard drive before and after a software upgrade. — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

All the posts were anonymized to protect any personal information, although unaltered versions were stored on an external hard drive not connected to the cloud. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 24 Aug. 2026

The sheriff’s office said Ahlers had hundreds, and possibly thousands, of pornographic photos and videos of children on his hard drive. — Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2026

Millions of photons strike the target every second, generating enough data to fill an average laptop hard drive within only a few minutes. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1982, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for hard drive

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

Kids Definition

hard drive

noun

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