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

The hard drive alone contained nearly 500 gigabytes of files and thousands of explicit videos and images of children, including one roughly nine-minute video of a toddler performing oral sex on a grown man, court documents show. — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026

Bouzari not only sells super-fast hard drives but also uses software to break up enormous files and spread them simultaneously across thousands of drives. — Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

According to documents obtained by PEOPLE, the list of items includes $9,000 in cash and multiple iPads, iPhones, laptops and hard drives. — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026

In 2021, researchers discovered ILObleed, a malicious implant that infected HPE servers with wiper firmware that destroyed data stored on hard drives. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 5 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