NOUN | artifact | disc drive, disk drive, hard drive, Winchester drive | computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it |
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Meaning | computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it. | |
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Synonyms | disk drive, hard drive, Winchester drive | |
Category | computer science, computing | The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures |
Parts | hard disc, hard disk, fixed disk | A rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit |
Broader | drive | (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium |
Spanish | disco duro, disquetera, unidad de disco | |
Catalan | disc dur, unitat de disc |
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