hard drive

Noun

Meaning

computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

hardware disk disc floppy disk personal computer diskette HDD magnetic tape central processing unit hard disk optical disk fixed disk hard disc disc drive modem
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Hypernyms

drive

Examples

Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive. Kevin Mitnick

Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know. Bill Gates

Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all. Dave Grohl

I never really see a book in the context of what went before because when I finish a book I try to press the delete button so that it's wiped off the hard drive... Caryl Phillips

More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting. Curt Schilling

Close letter words and terms

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