Examples of hard drive in a Sentence
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Over the years, tax documents, false teeth, family heirlooms, and hard drives have been recovered.
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Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
Servers processed through manual disassembly may still contain sensitive data on hard drives and memory chips if not properly wiped.
—Sviat Dulianinov, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
But the internet doesn’t fit on a hard drive anymore, and the robots are vastly more powerful.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
Like many photo programs, the left sidebar has image sources, including hard drives, and ACDSee Mobile Sync, which sucks up photos and videos from your smartphone via the ACDSee Mobile Sync app.
—PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
The intelligence has been gleaned from hard drives, cellphones, laptops, maps and other material seized during Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip, as well as electronic eavesdropping conducted by the U.S., the sources said.
—Dan De Luce, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2024
All the other stuff goes into Google Drive, and onto that same hard drive.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 18 Feb. 2024
In a few years your hard drive may be full of such squishy stuff.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
Inside the containers — most of them were secured with metal locks about the size and shape of a corkscrew that easily succumbed to his bolt cutters or mechanized handsaw — the items were varied and plentiful: TVs, beer, clothing, makeup, shoes, electric bicycles, hard drives, tablets.
—Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
Servers processed through manual disassembly may still contain sensitive data on hard drives and memory chips if not properly wiped.
—Sviat Dulianinov, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
But the internet doesn’t fit on a hard drive anymore, and the robots are vastly more powerful.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
Like many photo programs, the left sidebar has image sources, including hard drives, and ACDSee Mobile Sync, which sucks up photos and videos from your smartphone via the ACDSee Mobile Sync app.
—PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
The intelligence has been gleaned from hard drives, cellphones, laptops, maps and other material seized during Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip, as well as electronic eavesdropping conducted by the U.S., the sources said.
—Dan De Luce, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2024
All the other stuff goes into Google Drive, and onto that same hard drive.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 18 Feb. 2024
In a few years your hard drive may be full of such squishy stuff.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
Inside the containers — most of them were secured with metal locks about the size and shape of a corkscrew that easily succumbed to his bolt cutters or mechanized handsaw — the items were varied and plentiful: TVs, beer, clothing, makeup, shoes, electric bicycles, hard drives, tablets.
—Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
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First Known Use
1982, in the meaning defined above
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: a device for storing computer data that consists of one or more hard disks in a sealed case
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