: a device for reading and writing data on a magnetic disk
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Marvell, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, was founded in 1995 to produce parts for spinning disk drives.—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
5 June 2026 Soon, Dan Bricklin’s VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet software, harnessed the power of the Apple II's disk drive and became the system's killer app for businesses.—
Jamie Lendino,
PC Magazine,
30 Mar. 2026 Server 10 in App 14 cluster may be heading for a disk drive failure.—
Nisha Talagala,
Forbes.com,
23 Feb. 2026 ReElement, in partnership with Vulcan Elements, aims in the next few years to produce 10,000 metric tons of neodymium-iron-boron magnets used not only in EVs, but also wind-turbine generators, hard-disk drives and MRI machines.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
21 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disk drive