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"Hard drive" may be regarded as a compound noun, but traditionally, "hard" would be regarded as an adjective and "drive" as a noun. A justification for considering the two word phrase a single noun is that this phrase implies considerably more than merely a drive that is hard; it also implies storage capacity and read and write memory as a computer component. A Golf stroke could also be called a "hard drive", for example, but in that instance the phrase has no substantial additional implications that are not comprehended within the normal meanings of "hard" and "drive" separately in the context.

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