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Examples of disk drive in a Sentence
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My brother almost immediately found its flat membrane keyboard frustrating and the Atari 410 cassette drive too slow, so my dad ordered an Atari 800 and an Atari 810 disk drive instead.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2024
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
Likewise, in the second prototype, the disk drives were controlled by the main microprocessor.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
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
Western Digital recently expanded its disk drive lineup to include NVMe SSDs for the Steam Deck and ROG Ally as well as expandable storage cards for Xbox Series S / X consoles.
—Emma Roth, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2023
Problems with the disk drives in the middle of 1983 required Mr. Smith to redesign his final prototype twice.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
This meant disk drives could operate reliably, without wearing down during startup or shutdown.
—Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023
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
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Word History
First Known Use
1963, in the meaning defined above
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“Disk drive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disk%20drive. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.
Kids Definition
disk drive
noun
: a device for reading and writing computer data on a magnetic disk
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