How to Use hard drive in a Sentence

hard drive

noun
Definition of hard drivenext
  • The ads will be stored on the hard drive that ships with the PC, and displayed along the side of the screen.
    — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 20 July 2019
  • In a few years your hard drive may be full of such squishy stuff.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Tap or click for six ways to check for a failing hard drive.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Would my laptop and the hard drive be a good way to take my music with me?
    — Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
  • But the answer turned out to be sitting on his hard drive.
    — Alex Pappademas, The New Yorker, 31 July 2019
  • Then, for good measure, look for ways to free up hard drive space.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The speed of the WD Red hard drives isn’t blisteringly fast.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The rest of the songs are half-finished somewhere on someone's hard drive.
    — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 13 July 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
  • However, Gary Harris lost the ball out of bounds on a hard drive to the rim, and Wood sealed the game with a floater in the lane.
    — John Denton, Chron, 19 Apr. 2021
  • See Kurt's picks for the best external hard drives here.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 20 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • But the Pistons sorely missed Rose's hard drives to the basket and pullup jumpers in the fourth quarter.
    — Dana Gauruder, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • The center of the cell contains the nucleus, which acts like the robot’s hard drive.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
  • This was our pick for best external hard drive of 2020.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 30 Nov. 2020
  • One option is to see if your PC's hard drive can be salvaged.
    — Steve Alexander, Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
  • All the other stuff goes into Google Drive, and onto that same hard drive.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 18 Feb. 2024
  • On Windows, launch Notepad, and then open the hosts file from the Windows/ System32/ drivers/etc folder on your hard drive.
    — David Nield, Wired, 11 Oct. 2020
  • There is no evidence that ties Hunter Biden's hard drive to Derkach.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Picking the right hard drive comes down to balancing three things: speed, size, and price.
    — Scott Gilbertson, Wired, 9 July 2021
  • Both iPhone and iOS encrypt your hard drive by default.
    — Matt Burgess, Wired, 29 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Toward the end of the video police can be seen leaving with what appears to be a computer hard drive.
    — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2025
  • This form is great for holding computer information, but not so stable; a magnet could easily wipe out a hard drive, for instance.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025

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