How to Use hard drive in a Sentence

hard drive

noun
  • In a few years your hard drive may be full of such squishy stuff.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Someone restart the hard drive on this year.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
  • It’s stored on hard drives that degrade over time.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Faster hard drives will tend to make more noise than slower ones.
    — PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Then, for good measure, look for ways to free up hard drive space.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2020
  • This is a bit more work than taking a crowbar to a dead hard drive.
    — Rob Pegoraro, USA TODAY, 5 July 2018
  • What’s the best external hard drive to buy?
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Experts say that footage could have been damaged when the hard drive failed.
    — Daniel Ruetenik, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Would my laptop and the hard drive be a good way to take my music with me?
    — Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
  • Other icons that reused or riffed on the old hard drive icon have also been changed.
    — Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Don’t keep songs captive in a hard drive, put it out there and see what happens.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Preferred format Vinyl or my own wavs on hard drives.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 1 May 2026
  • Sync their files to an external hard drive a couple of times a year.
    — David Pierce, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2018
  • Invest in a backup hard drive or a cloud service.
    — David Sparrow, Parents, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Cameras capture to hard drives.
    — Matthew Henick, Variety, 23 Feb. 2026
  • All of that content sits in hard drives and inboxes.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Enlarge / Maps this detailed can take up a lot of hard drive space.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2022
  • This led to a search of his phone, laptop computer and hard drives.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Shor handed over a hard drive, and Seales and his colleagues went to work.
    — Henrik Knudsen, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
  • Use cloud backups, an external hard drive or both.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The rest of the songs are half-finished somewhere on someone's hard drive.
    — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 13 July 2021
  • These rare earth magnets are used in hard drives and EV motors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Which external hard drives for Xbox One are best?
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • One option is to see if your PC's hard drive can be salvaged.
    — Steve Alexander, Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
  • The best way is to download your photos and videos to a computer hard drive.
    — David Nield, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2023
  • What’s the best external hard drive for Xbox One to buy?
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • An external hard drive often costs less than a year or two of cloud storage fees.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Crucial also sold solid-state hard drives.
    — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2025
  • From headsets to hard drives, these are the best Xbox accessories.
    — Brad Bourque, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2025
  • And transferring files took a lifetime, plus the hard drives filled up quickly.
    — Darío Gael Blanco, Vanity Fair, 25 Apr. 2026

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