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hard disk
noun
: a rigid metal disk coated with a magnetic material on which data for a computer can be stored
also
: hard drive
Examples of hard disk in a Sentence
Remember to save the file to your hard disk.
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Seagate announced shipments of Exos M hard disk drives, HDD, samples to customers with up to 36TB storage capacity.
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Active data lives on SSDs with colder data kept on hard disk drives, HDDs, and magnetic tape.
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Started more than 50 years ago, data storage company Western Digital is one of the world's largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers, and produces solid-state drives (SSDs) and flash memory devices.
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Word History
First Known Use
1973, in the meaning defined above
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“Hard disk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20disk. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
hard disk
noun1
: a small hard metal disk with a magnetic coating on which computer data can be stored
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