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Dvd is a disc used in DVD players and computers and other things, but a hard drive is used in computers but not in DVD players.

Also, DVDs store quite a bit of stuff- about a few gigabytes maybe - but a hard drive can store so much more-for example the one terabyte hard drive exists today.

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