How to Use hard drive in a Sentence

hard drive

noun

• Then, for good measure, look for ways to free up hard drive space.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2020
• Keep the copies on two different media, such as your hard drive, an external drive or the cloud.
  — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2020
• The owner could also elect to wipe the hard drive or perform other remote actions.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2020
• The speed of the WD Red hard drives isn’t blisteringly fast.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
• This means that the malware would run without leaving a trace on the hard drive and would be difficult for victims to track down.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 6 Oct. 2020
• Until it's overwritten by new information, that file will still exist on your hard drive.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2020
• Like a computer backing up its hard drive, the brain is organizing its filing system.
  — Lori Miller Kase, Parents, 30 Oct. 2024
• SSDs are also much smaller and lighter than an external hard drive, but cost more, on average.
  — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2020
• Back up critical digital files on a portable external hard drive.
  — Leah Napoliello, Houston Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2020
• Similarly, any machine with a spinning hard drive (or HDD) is going to feel sluggish these days.
  — Whitson Gordon, Popular Science, 14 Sep. 2020
• On Windows, launch Notepad, and then open the hosts file from the Windows/ System32/ drivers/etc folder on your hard drive.
  — David Nield, Wired, 11 Oct. 2020
• Since most Chromebook’s don’t have much, if any, storage capacity on the device itself, an easy workaround is to pick up a portable hard drive.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2020
• One teensy problem: The computer designers appear to have programmed bad Elvis Presley movies into his hard drive.
  — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
• The fund has invited the investigators to its office, under cover of night, to scan the hard drive of an unsuspecting managing director.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• For the first few games, which were written for the Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles, Drivatars lived entirely on the console's local hard drive.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 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
• The center of the cell contains the nucleus, which acts like the robot’s hard drive.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
• This was our pick for best external hard drive of 2020.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 30 Nov. 2020
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024