hard disk

hard disk

See also: harddisk and hårddisk

English

Alternative forms

• HD (abbreviation)
• hard disc
• harddisk

Noun

hard disk (plural hard disks)

1. (computer hardware) One of a series of parallel magnetic recording disks in a drive unit, used for the recording and retrieval of digital information; used especially in personal computers.
2. (computer hardware) The unit itself, and all the disks within it.

Synonyms

• fixed disk
• hard drive
• hard disk drive, hard disc drive
• Winchester disk

Translations

recording disk in a drive unit

Chinese: Mandarin: 硬碟 (zh) (yìngdié), 硬盤／硬盘 (zh) (yìngpán) Finnish: kiintolevy (fi), kovalevy (fi) French: disque dur (fr) m Galician: disco duro m German: Festplatte (de) f Greek: σκληρός δίσκος (el) m (sklirós dískos) Hungarian: merevlemez (hu) Italian: disco fisso (it) m, hard disk (it) m, disco rigido (it) m Japanese: ハードディスク (hādodisuku) Kalmyk: хату диск (hatu disk) Korean: 하드 디스크 (hadeu diseukeu) Luxembourgish: Festplack (lb) f Macedonian: тврд диск m (tvrd disk) Maori: kōpae matua Norman: disque dû m Portuguese: disco rígido (pt) m Russian: жёсткий диск m (žóstkij disk), винче́стер (ru) m (vinčéster), хард-ди́ск (ru) m (xard-dísk) Scottish Gaelic: clàr cruaidh m Spanish: disco duro (es) m, disco rígido (es) m Turkish: sabit disk (tr), sert disk

unit and all the disks within it

Arabic: قُرْص صُلْب‎ m (qurṣ ṣulb) Belarusian: цвёрды дыск m (cvjórdy dysk) Bengali: হার্ড ডিস্ক (harḍô ḍiskô) Bulgarian: твърд диск m (tvǎrd disk) Chinese: Mandarin: 硬碟 (zh) (yìngdié), 硬盤／硬盘 (zh) (yìngpán) Czech: pevný disk (cs) m Danish: harddisk c Dutch: harde schijf (nl) Faroese: harðdiskur m Finnish: kiintolevy (fi), kovalevy (fi) French: disque dur (fr) m Georgian: მყარი დისკი (mq̇ari disḳi) German: Festplatte (de) f Greek: σκληρός δίσκος (el) m (sklirós dískos) Hebrew: כונן קשיח‎ (he) Hindi: हार्ड डिस्क (hārḍ ḍisk) Hungarian: merevlemez (hu) Indonesian: cakram keras, diska keras Italian: disco fisso (it) m, hard disk (it) m, disco rigido (it) m Japanese: ハードディスク (hādodisuku) Kalmyk: хату диск (hatu disk) Korean: 하드 디스크 (hadeu diseukeu) Macedonian: тврд диск m (tvrd disk) Mongolian: хатуу диск (xatuu disk) Norman: disque dû m Northern Sotho: tiske ye kgolo Persian: دیسک سخت‎ (disk-e saxt) Polish: dysk twardy (pl) m Portuguese: disco rígido (pt) Romanian: hard disk n Russian: жёсткий диск m (žóstkij disk), винче́стер (ru) m (vinčéster), хард-ди́ск (ru) m (xard-dísk), винт (ru) m (vint) Scottish Gaelic: clàr cruaidh m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тврди диск m Roman: tvrdi disk m Slovak: pevný disk m Slovene: trdi disk m Spanish: disco duro (es) m Thai: ฮาร์ดดิสก์ (th) (hâat-dìt) Turkish: sabit disk (tr), sert disk Ukrainian: тве́рдий диск m (tvérdyj dysk) Vietnamese: ổ đĩa cứng

See also

• DASD
• floppy disk
• floppy disk drive
• optical disc drive, optical drive
• optical disc
• SSD

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Czech

Alternative forms

• harddisk

Etymology

English hard disk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɦaːrt dɪsk]

Noun

hard disk m

1. hard disk, hard drive

   Synonym: pevný disk

Further reading

• hard disk in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

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Romanian

Noun

hard disk n (plural hard discuri)

1. hard disk, hard drive