hard disk

noun

: a rigid metal disk coated with a magnetic material on which data for a computer can be stored

also : hard drive

Examples of hard disk in a Sentence

Remember to save the file to your hard disk.

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Seagate announced shipments of Exos M hard disk drives, HDD, samples to customers with up to 36TB storage capacity. —

Thomas Coughlin, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025 Types of external hard drives There are two main types of external hard drives: HDD (hard disk drive) and SSD (solid state drive). —

Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 20 Jan. 2025 Active data lives on SSDs with colder data kept on hard disk drives, HDDs, and magnetic tape. —

Thomas Coughlin, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024 Started more than 50 years ago, data storage company Western Digital is one of the world's largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers, and produces solid-state drives (SSDs) and flash memory devices. —

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