How to Use hard disk in a Sentence

hard disk

noun

• Remember to save the file to your hard disk.
• The plug starts as a hard disk of plastic that looks like a cubist kidney bean.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
• The average age of the hard disk drives in Backblaze’s study was 49.63 months or just over four years old.
  — Barry Collins, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• Phase-change memory seems to offer the best of both worlds: the speed of current RAM with the permanence of a hard disk.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2018
• Tap or click for ways to check if your computer's hard disk is failing.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2021
• It’s kind of like a computer that compresses files to save hard disk space.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2021
• This is a handy way to free up some hard disk space and lighten the load on your operating system at the same time.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2023
• Unlike the text of a book or the bytes of a hard disk, the information stored in our brain is constantly on the verge of being erased.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2011
• Solid-state drives are, by a wide margin, much faster than older-style hard disk drives.
  — Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 1 July 2021
• Trojan virus may have already hurt your hard disk and its data.
  — Cathy Cunningham, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• To make sure your programs work properly, reinstall them on the hard disk, one at a time.
  — Steve Alexander Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 24 Jan. 2021
• The paper ran a cover story about the raid and how police seized dozens of hard disk drives for evidence.
  — Fox News, 18 June 2021
• Users enjoy easy access to files as if from a physical hard disk.
  — Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2022
• That conversation led to the hard disk in Kerry’s hand one year later.
  — Krithika Varagur, New Republic, 2 Nov. 2017
• The gradual replacement of hard disk drives by solid state drives is the main reason.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• As a result of this process, though, loads of hard disk reading and writing takes place, slowing your computer down.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2020
• One of the more interesting ones is extracting neodymium from the magnets in old hard disk drives.
  — Willy Shih, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• When programs and files in use fill up your available RAM, the computer processor has to read data from the much slower hard disk.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2020
• Adding just three qubits to Google’s challenger machine would have exhausted Summit’s hard disks.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• This may be a virtual hard disk locally or on a network or cloud location.
  — Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• While solid-state hard drives have become common in modern PCs, many budget models and older machines still have the old spinning hard disk drive.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2020
• The first digital storage device was the magnetic hard disk drive, invented in 1956.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2022
• If your computer uses a hard disk, a solid-state drive (or SSD) can dramatically boost your speed.
  — Shira Ovide, New York Times, 14 May 2020
• Operations like boot times and file transfers will see the biggest benefit when upgrading to SSD over a spinning hard disk drive.
  — Cameron Faulkner, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2018
• The Guardia di Finanza also seized the hard disks of about 10 Autostrade managers that could be persons of interest in the investigation and may have played a role in the management of the bridge, the person said.
  — Donato Paolo Mancini, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
• People have reported duplicitous postings for cheap hard disk drives and USB flash drives.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2023
• For someone who may need to take their stuff on the go, a portable solid state drive like the Samsung T5 is a noticeably faster and more reliable way to move around files than a traditional hard disk drive.
  — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2018
• Data storage at the time was large and cumbersome, consisting of punch cards, tape, or extremely large hard disk drives, driving up weight and power requirements.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2020
• As more people worked from home during the pandemic, manufacturer Nidec’s sales of motors for computers, hard disk drives and home appliances hummed along steadily in the past year.
  — James Simms, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• And these two companies have been known to be selling these hard disk drives to Chinese surveillance companies in large numbers and even optimizing some of the hard disk drives as surveillance hard drives for the Chinese.
  — CBS News, 4 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024