disc drive

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disc drive - computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on itdisk drive, hard drive, Winchester drivedrive - (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage mediumfixed disk, hard disc, hard disk - a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unitcomputer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures