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Definition of Hard drive

1. Noun. Computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it.

Definition of Hard drive

1. Noun. (computing) A device used for storing large amounts of data for a computer that persist while the computer is turned off. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard Drive

Literary usage of Hard drive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travels in the Great Western Prairies: The Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and by Thomas Jefferson Farnham (1843)
"... Spring—Natural Soda Fountains—Neighbouring Landscape—A hard Drive —Valley of Chasm—Nature's Vase-—A heavy March —Passing the Mountains—A charming Gorge ..."

2. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"Often, only a small subset of all files stored on a hard drive are ... Have you ever really thought about how information is stored to the hard drive? ..."

3. Developing Executive Ability by Enoch Burton Gowin (1919)
"—CHARLES W. ELIOT A hard drive Toward the Goal In pushing an enterprise to its full completion, the business man encounters a considerable amount of hard, ..."

4. Handbook on Hedonic Indexes and Quality Adjustments in Price Indexes by Jack E. Triplett (2006)
"Of the PC studies, only Dalen uses a hard drive speed variable, although the type dummy ... In addition to the basic hardware items - processor, hard drive, ..."

5. Overview of the Third Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-3)edited by D. K. Harmon edited by D. K. Harmon (1996)
"1 CD was copied to the hard drive of a PC running Linux (a public domain version of Unix) and functioning as an NFS node. 2. The Vol. ..."

6. Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital by Oecd, Organisation for Economic Co-operation, OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope, Development., SourceOECD (Online service) (2000)
"They allow the user to copy the program, for example onto the user's computer hard drive or for archival purposes. In this context, it is important to note ..."

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