How to Use hard drive in a Sentence

hard drive

noun
Definition of hard drivenext
  • The rest of the songs are half-finished somewhere on someone's hard drive.
    — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 13 July 2021
  • Picking the right hard drive comes down to balancing three things: speed, size, and price.
    — Scott Gilbertson, Wired, 9 July 2021
  • One option is to see if your PC's hard drive can be salvaged.
    — Steve Alexander, Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
  • Both iPhone and iOS encrypt your hard drive by default.
    — Matt Burgess, Wired, 29 Aug. 2021
  • These programs still occupy hard drive space and may even have temporary files and folders installed.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 15 July 2021
  • If the main hard drive or SSD on the Mac fails, the clone can be used to get you up and running again.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Back-ups protect your files in the event of a ransomware attack (or other kinds of malware), as well as theft, fire or flood, or a power surge that fries your hard drive.
    — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 24 July 2021
  • There's also the more mundane issue of people losing access to their crypto wallets due to lost passwords or hard drive failures.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 2 June 2021
  • SSDs do not have any moving parts, opposed to spinning magnetic platters inside a hard drive.
    — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 19 June 2021
  • In addition to eliminating the need to install games — which can take an hour or so for a triple-A title — games available over the cloud won’t take up any space on your hard drive.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Despite the popularity of cloud services, a majority of laptops still store most of your files locally on your computer's hard drive.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2021
  • In the pre-show room of the ride, look for a solid microcrystalline silicon billet, ancient silicon wafer chips, vintage cartridge casings for hard drive disks and microscopes.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2021
  • In a statement, Griswold's office also said hard drive images from the county's election servers were obtained by conspiracy theorists.
    — Fredreka Schouten, CNN, 21 Aug. 2021
  • In a few years your hard drive may be full of such squishy stuff.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Tap or click for six ways to check for a failing hard drive.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Tim Miller icily dubbed him) posted some of the emails found on Hunter’s hard drive.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Of all his shelved hard drives, however, Wilcha’s movie about the record store felt like the one that got away.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
  • Don’t keep songs captive in a hard drive, put it out there and see what happens.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Enlarge / Maps this detailed can take up a lot of hard drive space.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The best way is to download your photos and videos to a computer hard drive.
    — David Nield, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2023
  • All the other stuff goes into Google Drive, and onto that same hard drive.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 18 Feb. 2024
  • This will get you a faster processor, more RAM, and a larger hard drive.
    — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
  • Use the File Explorer window to pick the right file on your local hard drive.
    — Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Ryan Tedder’s hard drive is a repository of some of the biggest hits of the past two decades.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The Skims founder then opens a suitcase, which has a computer and hard drive inside.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The hardest thing about this step is figuring out which hard drive to buy.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2022
  • The latter will be delivered on a hard drive in a bespoke case.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Watch out for these telltale signs your hard drive is fading.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 5 June 2022
  • The script to install Asahi was as helpful and straightforward as a terminal script that resizes your hard drive can be.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 9 May 2024
  • Samsung is one of the biggest brands in the world, delivering quality products, from TVs to smartphones, from hard drives to smartwatches, and so on.
    — Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 15 July 2024

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