How to Use disk drive in a Sentence

disk drive

noun
  • The fact that Anthropic can’t make a disk drive or a floppy drive is too bad.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The machine also had cassette tape drives for storage, predecessors of disk drives.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2024
  • This meant disk drives could operate reliably, without wearing down during startup or shutdown.
    — Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023
  • This meant disk drives could operate reliably, without wearing down during startup or shutdown.
    — Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Likewise, in the second prototype, the disk drives were controlled by the main microprocessor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
  • His discovery is said to lie at the heart of the operation of modern hard-disk drives with their storage capacities in the gigabyte range.
    — Martin Weil, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The document comes from Western Digital, the largest supplier of computer disk drives.
    — Don Clark, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
  • This past quarter, Western Digital’s revenue dropped 26 percent year over year as flash memory and disk drive sales declined.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Seagate, one of the biggest makers of disk drives, has resorted to job and cost cuts in recent years to cope with weakening demand for personal computers that use its storage product.
    — Imani Moise, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Those rights were critical for Western Digital because hard-disk drives, one of its major products, are being replaced by flash-memory chips.
    — Takashi Mochizuki, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The transfer will be limited by the read speed of the memory cards being used, as well as the write speed of the target disk drive or SSD where the image are being uploaded.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • Burry believes the next generation of video game consoles by Microsoft and Sony will still include disk drives and pointed to GameStop's free cash flow.
    — Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Today’s computers can deal well with events that take milliseconds, such as accessing a disk drive or sending a message over the Internet—or nanoseconds, like loading a piece of data from main memory.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Those drives were notoriously unreliable, and since the Macintosh didn’t come with any internal storage, a disk drive users could rely on was a critical component.
    — Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Microsoft in a tweet Tuesday confirmed the Xbox Series S pricing information as well as the console design, which is smaller than prior models and lacks a disk drive.
    — Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Marvell, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, was founded in 1995 to produce parts for spinning disk drives.
    — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 5 June 2026
  • Julien's will auction the Apple II Plus ('78-'82) with a monitor, printer, two disk drives, two gaming paddles, and a manual.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The classic example here is the disruption and eventual dis- placement of leading disk drive players, which were caught off guard by bottom-up disruptors that initially entered the scene with simpler technology and inferior performance.
    — Fortune, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Or perhaps the human makes a copy of the AI onto an external disk drive or memory stick, carrying the AI out of the confinement, and then later on plugs the disk or memory stick into a non-confined computer.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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

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