How to Use hard disk in a Sentence

hard disk

noun
  • Remember to save the file to your hard disk.
  • Trojan virus may have already hurt your hard disk and its data.
    — Cathy Cunningham, chicagotribune.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Tap or click for ways to check if your computer's hard disk is failing.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The plug starts as a hard disk of plastic that looks like a cubist kidney bean.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2018
  • Lightroom doesn’t show your hard disk folders in its left panel.
    — Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine, 2 June 2026
  • Solid-state drives are, by a wide margin, much faster than older-style hard disk drives.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 1 July 2021
  • Users enjoy easy access to files as if from a physical hard disk.
    — Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • To make sure your programs work properly, reinstall them on the hard disk, one at a time.
    — Steve Alexander Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 24 Jan. 2021
  • Many of them add hard disk drives to the Macintosh, making the block-map scheme unwieldy.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
  • This is a handy way to free up some hard disk space and lighten the load on your operating system at the same time.
    — David Nield, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The paper ran a cover story about the raid and how police seized dozens of hard disk drives for evidence.
    — Fox News, 18 June 2021
  • The gradual replacement of hard disk drives by solid state drives is the main reason.
    — John Dorfman, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Only nine of the company's 695 servers still write data to hard disk.
    — Chris Stobing, PC Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
  • That conversation led to the hard disk in Kerry’s hand one year later.
    — Krithika Varagur, New Republic, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Since hard disks only have a five-year life span, the old hard disks will need to be discarded for new ones to retain the same data.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Aug. 2023
  • As a result of this process, though, loads of hard disk reading and writing takes place, slowing your computer down.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2020
  • This may be a virtual hard disk locally or on a network or cloud location.
    — Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • One of the more interesting ones is extracting neodymium from the magnets in old hard disk drives.
    — Willy Shih, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Laptops will either have a hard disk drive or solid-state drive of varying capacities.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Unlike the text of a book or the bytes of a hard disk, the information stored in our brain is constantly on the verge of being erased.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2011
  • Adding just three qubits to Google’s challenger machine would have exhausted Summit’s hard disks.
    — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Using a solid-state drive over a hard disk drive can drastically increase the speed of your laptop, so choose accordingly.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2026
  • People have reported duplicitous postings for cheap hard disk drives and USB flash drives.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2023
  • While solid-state hard drives have become common in modern PCs, many budget models and older machines still have the old spinning hard disk drive.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2020
  • If your computer uses a hard disk, a solid-state drive (or SSD) can dramatically boost your speed.
    — Shira Ovide, New York Times, 14 May 2020
  • When programs and files in use fill up your available RAM, the computer processor has to read data from the much slower hard disk.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Data storage at the time was large and cumbersome, consisting of punch cards, tape, or extremely large hard disk drives, driving up weight and power requirements.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The first digital storage device was the magnetic hard disk drive, invented in 1956.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Seagate Technology and Western Digital are among the largest makers of hard disk drives.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 1 May 2026
  • Önal’s port is precompiled for OS X, so installation was simply a matter of downloading it to my hard disk.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2013

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