How to Use disk drive in a Sentence

disk drive

noun
  • The disk drive market is an oligopoly with three players.
    John Dorfman, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The transfer will be limited by the read speed of the memory cards being used, as well as the write speed of the target disk drive or SSD where the image are being uploaded.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • Julien's will auction the Apple II Plus ('78-'82) with a monitor, printer, two disk drives, two gaming paddles, and a manual.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2023
  • His discovery is said to lie at the heart of the operation of modern hard-disk drives with their storage capacities in the gigabyte range.
    Martin Weil, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Burry believes the next generation of video game consoles by Microsoft and Sony will still include disk drives and pointed to GameStop's free cash flow.
    Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2019
  • A decade later, Apple released the MacBook Air with no disk drive at all (and teens everywhere said goodbye to the tradition of burning mixtapes for one another).
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 8 Dec. 2019
  • These archives hold other masters of various vintages: the lacquer, glass and metal masters that predated tape, and disk drives and digital tapes from the past few decades.
    New York Times, 11 June 2019
  • The document comes from Western Digital, the largest supplier of computer disk drives.
    Don Clark, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Microsoft in a tweet Tuesday confirmed the Xbox Series S pricing information as well as the console design, which is smaller than prior models and lacks a disk drive.
    Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020
  • So most computing devices use both: DRAM for short-term memory, and flash (which has largely replaced mechanical disk drives) for long-term storage.
    Klint Finley, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Seagate, one of the biggest makers of disk drives, has resorted to job and cost cuts in recent years to cope with weakening demand for personal computers that use its storage product.
    Imani Moise, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Those rights were critical for Western Digital because hard-disk drives, one of its major products, are being replaced by flash-memory chips.
    Takashi Mochizuki, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Or perhaps the human makes a copy of the AI onto an external disk drive or memory stick, carrying the AI out of the confinement, and then later on plugs the disk or memory stick into a non-confined computer.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • This meant disk drives could operate reliably, without wearing down during startup or shutdown.
    Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2020
  • This meant disk drives could operate reliably, without wearing down during startup or shutdown.
    Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The classic example here is the disruption and eventual dis- placement of leading disk drive players, which were caught off guard by bottom-up disruptors that initially entered the scene with simpler technology and inferior performance.
    Fortune, 26 Sep. 2017

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