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Definition: internal hard drive


The internal storage in desktop computers is a magnetic disk drive, and increasingly, a solid state drive (SSD). Hard drives are mostly SATA drives. See SATA, SSD, internal drive and magnetic disk.




Three-Trillion Bytes of Disk Storage
This 3TB internal hard drive was on sale at Micro Center in the summer of 2014. (Image courtesy of Micro Center.)