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
• Many of them add hard disk drives to the Macintosh, making the block-map scheme unwieldy.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
• 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
• Since hard disks only have a five-year life span, the old hard disks will need to be discarded for new ones to retain the same data.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Aug. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024