hard drive

noun

: a data-storage device consisting of a drive and one or more hard disks

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The Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese engineers had flown to Malaysia in March carrying hard drives containing data to build artificial intelligence models in Malaysian data centers using advanced Nvidia chips. Afp, Fortune, 19 June 2025 If the device you are done with has a hard drive, simply the act of deleting will not completely erase information. Renee Schafer, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025 The problem for historians is twofold: On the one hand, celebrities, artists, executives, and social-movement leaders are generating more personal records than ever, meaning a lucky researcher might have access to a public figure’s entire hard drive but struggle to interpret its contents. Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 4 June 2025 The vessel is thought to contain watertight safes in which Lynch kept highly encrypted hard drives. Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for hard drive

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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 1 Jul. 2025.

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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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