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 (zh), 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 (xatu 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 (ru) 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, sert disk

unit and all the disks within it

• Arabic: قُرْص صُلْب‎ m (qurṣ ṣulb)
• Belarusian: цвёрды дыск m (cvjórdy dysk)
• Bengali: হার্ড ডিস্ক (harḍ ḍiśk)
• Bulgarian: твърд диск m (tvǎrd disk)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硬碟 (zh) (yìngdié), 硬盤 (zh), 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 (xatu disk)
• Korean: 하드 디스크 (hadeu diseukeu)
• Macedonian: тврд диск m (tvrd disk)
• Mongolian: хатуу диск (hatuu 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)
• Russian: жёсткий диск (ru) 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, 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

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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