hard drive

See also: harddrive

English

A hard disk drive

Noun

hard drive (plural hard drives)

1. (computing, computer hardware) An electromechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid, rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

Synonyms

• hard disc, hard disk
• hard disc drive, hard disk drive
• HD, HDD (abbreviation)

Translations

device used for storing large amounts of data

• Afrikaans: hardeskyf
• Albanian: hard disk m
• Arabic: قُرْص صُلْب m (qurṣ ṣulb)
• Aragonese: disco duro m
• Armenian: կոշտ սկավառակ (košt skavaṙak)
• Asturian: discu duru m
• Basque: disko gogor
• Belarusian: цвёрды дыск m (cvjórdy dysk)
• Bengali: হার্ড ডিস্ক (harḍo ḍisko)
• Breton: pladenn galet
• Bulgarian: твърд диск m (tvǎrd disk)
• Catalan: disc dur (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硬碟 (zh) (yìngdié), 硬盤／硬盘 (zh) (yìngpán)

• Czech: pevný disk (cs) m
• Danish: harddisk
• Dutch: harde schijf (nl) f
• Esperanto: malmola disko, durdisko
• Estonian: kõvaketas
• Faroese: harðdiskur m
• Finnish: kiintolevy (fi), kovalevy (fi)
• French: disque dur (fr) m
• Friulian: disc dûr
• Galician: disco ríxido m
• Georgian: მყარი დისკი (mq̇ari disḳi), ხისტი დისკი (xisṭi disḳi)
• German: Festplatte (de) f
• Greek: σκληρός δίσκος (el) m (sklirós dískos)
• Hawaiian: kakena paʻaloko
• Hebrew: כונן קשיח (he) m
• Hungarian: merevlemez (hu)
• Icelandic: harður diskur m, harðdiskur (is) m
• Indonesian: cakram keras, diska keras
• Interlingua: disco dur
• Irish: tiomántán crua m
• Italian: disco rigido (it)
• Japanese: ハードディスク (hādodisuku)
• Kabyle: aḍebsi aquran
• Kazakh: тұрғылықты дискі (kk) (tūrğylyqty diskı)
• Khmer: ថាសរឹង (km) (thaahrɨng)
• Korean: 하드 디스크 (hadeu diseukeu)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latgalian: cītdiskys
• Latvian: cietais disks, cietnis
• Lingala: diski ebómbelo enéne
• Lithuanian: standusis diskas
• Lombard: disch dür
• Low German:

  German Low German: Fastplaat

• Luxembourgish: Festplack (lb) f
• Macedonian: тврд диск m (tvrd disk), хард диск m (hard disk)
• Malay: cakera keras
• Malayalam: ഹാർഡ് ഡിസ്ക് ഡ്രൈവ് (hāṟḍŭ ḍiskŭ ḍraivŭ)
• Marathi: हार्ड ड्राइव्ह f (hārḍa ḍrāivha), हार्ड डिस्क f (hārḍa ḍiska)
• Mongolian: хатуу диск (xatuu disk)
• Norman: disque dû m
• Northern Sami: garraskearru
• Norwegian: platelager
• Persian: دیسک سخت, هارد (hârd)
• Polish: dysk twardy (pl)
• Portuguese: disco rígido (pt) m, disco duro (pt) m
• Romanian: hard disk n, disc dur n
• Russian: жёсткий диск m (žóstkij disk), винче́стер (ru) m (vinčéster) (colloquial), ха́рддиск m (xárddisk) (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тврди диск m

  Roman: tvrdi disk m

• Sicilian: hard disk m
• Slovak: pevný disk m
• Slovene: trdi disk m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: twarda plata f, kšuta plata f

• Spanish: disco duro (es) m
• Swahili: kiendeshi diski kuu
• Swedish: hårddisk (sv) c
• Tagalog: hard disk drayb
• Tamil: வன்தட்டு நிலை நினைவகம் (vaṉtaṭṭu nilai niṉaivakam)
• Telugu: హార్డ్ డిస్క్ డ్రైవు (hārḍ ḍisk ḍraivu)
• Thai: ฮาร์ดดิสก์ (th) (hâat-dìt)
• Turkish: sabit disk (tr)
• Ukrainian: тве́рдий диск m (tvérdyj dysk)
• Urdu: قرص کثیفی قیادہ m
• Venetian: disco duro
• Vietnamese: ổ đĩa cứng
• West Frisian: fêste skiif
• Yakut: кытаанах диск (kıtaanaq disk)
• Yiddish: האַרטער דיסק m (harter disk)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Compare with floppy drive.