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hard drive

[hahrd drahyv]

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noun

Computers.

HDD.
(loosely) a drive for a computer, as a traditional hard disk drive (HDD) or another drive serving a similar function, as opposed to a very small, portable flash drive.

hard drive

noun

computing (on a computer) the mechanism that handles the reading, writing, and storage of data on the hard disk

hard drive

A disk drive that reads data stored on hard disks.
Also called hard disk drive

hard drive

The bulk of the memory of a personal computer is magnetically stored on hard disks that constitute the hard drive. Information in the hard drive is durable, in that it remains magnetically stored when the computer is turned off. (See magnetic memory.)

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hard drive¹

First recorded in 1980–85

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Six devices were seized and searched, including two mobile phones, laptops and external hard drives.

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Boniface Mwangi, one of the activists who had visited Ms Njeri in custody, said she told them that police had ransacked her house and taken her phone, laptop and hard drives.

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She hit the floor multiple times on hard drives, fighting through contact, and getting in the faces of Mercury defenders to confront them about foul calls.

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"We can scan it back, and decode the data just the same way as reading data from a hard drive, but we will be reading data from the film."

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They unplugged the hard drive in my computer and left that there — a weird act of charity, or something?

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