hard drive is a computer storage
Hard Disk Drive.
Hard Disk Drive, or a hard drive for short
basic disk
If you stand it up vertically and look at the top there should be a raised bit and there will be a metal stripe down it that says HDD
It doesn't stand for anything. It's a component/s inside your Hard Disk Drive (HDD). When you save data or install programs on your computer, the information is typically written to your Hard Disk. The Hard Disk is a spindle of magnetic disks called platters. The Hard Disk is housed inside the Hard Drive, which reads and writes data to the disk.
A series of Fujitsu Hard drives; e.g. the MAN3735MC, a 73.5GB SCSI drive.
Your computer, iPhone, iPod, MP3 player, Smart phone, CD, DVD, Cassette tape, Flash drive, Zip Drive, stand alone hard drive, etc.
They are very similar. These two terms are usually used in the following way: A product marketed as an "external hard drive" is an enclosed, stand-alone hard drive that is meant to sit on or by a computer desk. It is big & heavy enough that you wouldn't want to carry it around all the time. A product marketed as a "portable hard drive" is an external hard drive that is small & light enough to be conveniently carried around in a computer bag, sometimes even in your pocket.
a hard drive failure is when your hard drive stops working...
a hard drive is called "disque dur" in French.
Quote from a Google search: IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) is a standard electronic interface used between a computer motherboard's data paths or bus and the computer's disk storage devices.
* Hard disk drive * Hard drive * HDD