Definition of hard disk in US English:
hard disk
nounˈhärd ˈˌdiskˈhɑrd ˈˌdɪsk
Computing A rigid nonremovable magnetic disk with a large data storage capacity.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the computer realm, magnetic recording is used on floppy disks, hard disks and magnetic tape as the main method for data storage.
- If your computer is infected with a boot sector virus, the virus tries to write copies of itself to the system areas of floppy disks and hard disks.
- The old rule was hard disks for primary storage and tape for backup.
- Plug in a flash memory device, hard disk, or CDRom into the USB port and it pops up on the desktop ready for use.
- Some have multiple IDE or SCSI hard disks for massive storage, and some have only one IDE or SCSI drive.