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hard disk

[hahrd disk] / ˈhɑrd ˈdɪsk /
NOUN
permanent computer memory
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Rare earths are a term covering 17 metallic elements that are key for manufacturing components used in products such as smartphones, batteries, and hard disk drives, among others.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

“It’s kind of like the hard disk drive story,” Fox said, explaining that EMS companies can stack different solutions and expand margins while saving end users money.

From Barron's • Dec. 29, 2025

Western Digital is one of the largest players in enterprise hard disk drives and is gaining pricing power amid this backdrop, Travis Prentice, chief investment officer of the Informed Momentum Company, recently told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 18, 2025

Looking back, it wasn’t much of an exaggeration when that ReplayTV executive told us in 1999 that five years hence, all TV would be watched from a hard disk.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

Over the next three years, the hard disk of his memory slowly began to be erased, beginning with the most recent information and proceeding backward.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides