: a data-storage device consisting of a drive and one or more hard disks
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThe laptop of one fire captain who took photos, Lavoie said, was missing its hard drive when it was examined.Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022 Forgetting to lock a computer screen before going for a coffee refill, or rushing to a source meeting in the field without removing a hard drive and placing it in a safe, qualifies as mishandling. Kevin Carroll, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022 The risk of sound vibrations disrupting a hard drive is certainly surprising. Michael Kan, PCMAG, 17 Aug. 2022 The new records show that after SullivanStrickler investigators copied the hard drive of an elections server in Antrim on Dec. 6, 2020, Maggio emailed Powell and Penrose, who were not involved in the local lawsuit. Amy Gardner, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022 The new records show that after SullivanStrickler investigators copied the hard drive of an elections server in Antrim on Dec. 6, 2020, Maggio emailed Powell and Penrose, who were not involved in the local lawsuit.Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2022 Typical measures such as wiping the hard drive and reinstalling the OS have no meaningful impact because the UEFI infection will simply reinfect the computer afterward. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 13 July 2022 Costco has been offering a Seagate 2TB portable hard drive for $65, for instance. Scott Kramer, Forbes, 12 July 2022 Heathrow Airport was fined $147,000 in 2018 after an employee lost an unencrypted hard drive containing, among other things, the names, passport numbers and birthdays of 10 people.New York Times, 28 June 2022 See More
Word History
First Known Use
1982, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
hard drive
noun
: a data storage device of a computer containing one or more hard disks