How to Use hard drive in a Sentence

hard drive

noun
  • This was our pick for best external hard drive of 2020.
    Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Use it to free up your hard drive and manage your files in the cloud, from organizing to sharing them with ease.
    Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2020
  • The software searches a computer hard drive or a phone's memory to find photos, then copies them to the flash drive.
    Steve Alexander, Star Tribune, 22 Nov. 2020
  • Giuliani is not the only person who has appeared frustrated with Barr's approach to the hard drive.
    Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2020
  • As anyone who’s experienced a hard drive failure can tell you, stuff goes wrong and computers aren’t perfect.
    Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The external hard drive from Seagate gives you reliable performance and speed for its size.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Apricon's hard drive features a 10-digit keypad that protects the contents from being read.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Otherwise, much of the dump is a profound act of absence, with almost everything worth watching abandoned on a secret hard drive or not filmed at all.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In the wake of the fire set by Bird, the hard drive has all but perished, and what’s left now are only ashes and aspirations for a boundless future.
    Spin Contributor, SPIN, 16 July 2024
  • The real speed, however, comes from the custom non-volatile memory express SSD storage, which can read and write dozens of times faster than a spinning hard drive.
    Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2020
  • In a few years your hard drive may be full of such squishy stuff.
    IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
  • If the main hard drive or SSD on the Mac fails, the clone can be used to get you up and running again.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Tap or click for six ways to check for a failing hard drive.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Would my laptop and the hard drive be a good way to take my music with me?
    Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
  • The rest of the songs are half-finished somewhere on someone's hard drive.
    Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 13 July 2021
  • Tim Miller icily dubbed him) posted some of the emails found on Hunter’s hard drive.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • However, Gary Harris lost the ball out of bounds on a hard drive to the rim, and Wood sealed the game with a floater in the lane.
    John Denton, Chron, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Of all his shelved hard drives, however, Wilcha’s movie about the record store felt like the one that got away.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
  • 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
  • One option is to see if your PC's hard drive can be salvaged.
    Steve Alexander, Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
  • 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
  • Picking the right hard drive comes down to balancing three things: speed, size, and price.
    Scott Gilbertson, Wired, 9 July 2021
  • Both iPhone and iOS encrypt your hard drive by default.
    Matt Burgess, Wired, 29 Aug. 2021
  • 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

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