How to Use hard drive in a Sentence

hard drive

noun
  • In a few years your hard drive may be full of such squishy stuff.
    IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Tim Miller icily dubbed him) posted some of the emails found on Hunter’s hard drive.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Don’t keep songs captive in a hard drive, put it out there and see what happens.
    Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Enlarge / Maps this detailed can take up a lot of hard drive space.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The best way is to download your photos and videos to a computer hard drive.
    David Nield, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2023
  • All the other stuff goes into Google Drive, and onto that same hard drive.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 18 Feb. 2024
  • This will get you a faster processor, more RAM, and a larger hard drive.
    Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
  • Use the File Explorer window to pick the right file on your local hard drive.
    Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Ryan Tedder’s hard drive is a repository of some of the biggest hits of the past two decades.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The Skims founder then opens a suitcase, which has a computer and hard drive inside.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The hardest thing about this step is figuring out which hard drive to buy.
    Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The latter will be delivered on a hard drive in a bespoke case.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Watch out for these telltale signs your hard drive is fading.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 5 June 2022
  • For your hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD), find an empty bay in the front-facing part of your case.
    Jaina Grey Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The program takes up about 3GB of hard drive space, similar to Lightroom’s size.
    PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Everything recorded is stored on the hard drive, and there are no monthly fees.
    Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Modern games tend to use vast amounts of storage on your hard drive, so the more gigabytes the better.
    Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Large pockets open up for charging blocks, power banks, and hard drives.
    Kelsey Glennon, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But the average lifespan of a digital hard drive is three to five years.
    Brian Michael Murphy, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
  • With the agreement in place, the order was signed, and prosecutors handed over a hard drive.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Gillis supplied the hammer, scoring the White Tigers’ last three points on a hard drive to the bucket, then hitting one of two free throws.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Mac Isaac eventually shared a copy of a hard drive to a lawyer for Rudolph W. Giuliani and others.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The hard drive offers support for USB 3.2 Gen 1, which means faster data transfer rates.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 Feb. 2022
  • That is because the images and videos are now stored on much smaller devices than when hard drives were common.
    Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2023
  • That’s a heck of a lot longer than the lifespan of your average hard drive, which typically tops out at around five years.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 4 Dec. 2023
  • As of Tuesday, four computers, two hard drives and a router still had not been returned, according to the Record.
    Michael Roppolo, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Family photos—scan prints and save those files on the portable hard drive, too.
    Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
  • On the other hand, most of the least durable and resilient hard drives from each manufacturer were made after 2015.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Here, there wasn't likely to be a smoking-gun email or document pulled from the defendant's hard drive or cell phone.
    Elliot Williams, CNN, 8 Mar. 2022
  • All your videos are uploaded to iCloud, and there’s no option to keep local copies on a memory card or hard drive.
    WIRED, 8 Nov. 2023

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