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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hard drive
noun
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▪ A cookie is simply a small data file on your hard drive.
▪ Geoff Cox shows how to add a second hard drive to your existing system.
▪ In the next window, browse to the file's location on your hard drive and select it, then click Next.
▪ Is the hard drive from a reputable manufacturer?
▪ It will also move a program from one hard drive to another or from one computer to another.
▪ Kuo said the virus attacks the spot where the layout of its hard drive is stored.
▪ OptiBus also acts as a local bus for the hard drive, reducing access times.
▪ The other kind is disk storage, commonly on a hard drive or floppy disk.
Wiktionary
hard drive

n. (context computing English) A device used for storing large amounts of data for a computer that persist while the computer is turned off.

WordNet
hard drive

n. computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it [syn: disk drive, disc drive, Winchester drive]

Wikipedia
Hard Drive (The Sorry Kisses album)

Hard Drive is the debut album from York rock band The Sorry Kisses, which was released on April 28, 2008. The album has been created as an outlet for Hayley Hutchinson's louder songs, which contrast with her usual acoustic style. The album was released exclusively online on a limited run of 100 handmade copies, but is currently only available on iTunes. All songs feature Hayley Hutchinson on lead vocals and Sam Forrest on backing vocals, except Painted Doll which features Sam and Hayley's roles reversed, and I Want You Now in which both share lead.

Hard drive (disambiguation)

Hard disk drive is a computer storage device containing rigid rotating platters.

Hard drive may also refer to:

  • Solid-state drive, a computer storage device that has no moving parts
  • Hard Drive (The Sorry Kisses album), a 2008 album by The Sorry Kisses
  • Hard Drive (Art Blakey album), a 1957 album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
  • Hard Drive (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
  • HardDrive (radio show), a rock radio show
  • Hard Drive, a 1993 techno-thriller novel by David Pogue
  • Hard Drive (film), a film starring John Cusack
Hard Drive (Art Blakey album)

Hard Drive is an album by drummer Art Blakey with The Jazz Messengers recorded in late 1957 and originally released on the Bethlehem label.

Usage examples of "hard drive".

He collects blurry non-color-adjusted photos taken with instamatics and scanned into JPEG format and posted on 30 million websites, and he brings them to his hard drive and categorizes them like his own personalized pornography magazine and he takes out his laptop on lonely Saturday nights and masturbates to his fellow slacker compatriots without them knowing.

I wrote a lot of stuff in early versions of Word, storing it all on floppies, and transferred the contents of all my floppies to my first hard drive, which I acquired around 1987.

Carialle searched the chips which supplied her with hard drive storage, found nothing, and extended the search to her other components.

For that matter it is possible even to find ghostly traces of old bits on a hard drive’.