hard drive

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

hard drive
    n 1: computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or
         optical disk and reads and writes information on it [syn:
         {disk drive}, {disc drive}, {hard drive}, {Winchester
         drive}]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

hard disk drive
hard drive
HDD

   <storage> (HDD) A {disk drive} used to read and write {hard
   disks}.

   (1995-03-14)

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