hard disk

See also: harddisk and hårddisk

English

Alternative forms

• HD (abbreviation)
• hard disc
• harddisk

Noun

hard disk (plural hard disks)

2. (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.
3. (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

• Catalan: disc dur (ca) m
• 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, disco duro m (Switzerland)
• Japanese: ハードディスク (ja) (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 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
• Welsh: disg caled m

unit and all the disks within it

• Arabic: قُرْص صُلْب m (qurṣ ṣulb)
• Belarusian: цвёрды дыск m (cvjórdy dysk)
• Bengali: হার্ড ডিস্ক (harḍo ḍisko)
• Bulgarian: твърд диск m (tvǎrd disk)
• Catalan: disc dur (ca) m
• 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, disco duro m (Switzerland)
• Japanese: ハードディスク (ja) (hādodisuku)
• Kalmyk: хату диск (xatu 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

Czech

Alternative forms

• harddisk

Etymology

Borrowed from English hard disk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɦaːrt dɪsk]

Noun

hard disk m inan

1. hard disk, hard drive

   Synonym: pevný disk

Declension

Declension of hard disk (velar masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	hard disk	hard disky
genitive	hard disku	hard disků
dative	hard disku	hard diskům
accusative	hard disk	hard disky
vocative	hard disku	hard disky
locative	hard disku	hard discích
instrumental	hard diskem	hard disky

Further reading

• “hard disk”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

Romanian

Noun

hard disk n (plural hard discuri)

1. hard disk, hard drive