: a rigid metal disk coated with a magnetic material on which data for a computer can be stored
also: hard drive
Example Sentences
Remember to save the file to your hard disk.
Recent Examples on the WebBulkier gaming laptops have moved to SSD boot drives, too, while only a subset of budget machines still favor hard disk drives (HDDs).PCMAG, 26 Aug. 2022 Flash memory retains data even when the computer is powered off, but if a computer goes unused for a year or two, the flash memory will begin to lose that data more quickly than a hard disk would. Brian Michael Murphy, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022 It's made with a powerful AMD Ryzen 3 3350U processor, 10-hour battery life, and 128 gigabytes of solid-state drive storage, which delivers faster load times for media than traditional hard disk drives. Tess Garcia, EW.com, 30 June 2022 The first digital storage device was the magnetic hard disk drive, invented in 1956. Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2022 Zoned Storage is comprised of two technologies: Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) in hard disk drives (HDDs) and Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) in solid state drives (SSDs). Tom Coughlin, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022 Second sub-phase had as many as 12 parallel projects for bringing hard disk drive manufacturing operations to cloud and consolidating all shipping and revenue operations, making way to retire two out of three legacy ERPs. Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021 Tap or click for ways to check if your computer's hard disk is failing. Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2021 This may be a virtual hard disk locally or on a network or cloud location. Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021 See More