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If the conversation begins to veer in the direction of those prior portions, the AI will retrieve those from the hard drive.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
So long as fans still thought of music in terms of ownership, there were still things to sell them—if not physical media, at least song files meant to be downloaded onto your hard drive.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Plot and character details are being kept in the hard drive, but the project is described as a paranoid thriller that has tonal influences of Silence of the Lambs and involves the hunt for a cyber terrorist.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024
This nifty electronic carrying case has multiple mesh pockets inside specifically designed to keep your earbuds, flash drives, charging cables, phones, and hard drives organized.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2024
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First Known Use
1982, in the meaning defined above
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“Hard drive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20drive. Accessed 10 Jan. 2025.
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hard drive
noun
: a device for storing computer data that consists of one or more hard disks in a sealed case
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