n. ~ 1. A device, including housing, drive, controller, and read-write heads, used to store computer data on a disk. Notes:  The drive may have an integral disk, such as a hard drive, or may mount int [..]

The equipment that operates a hard or floppy disc.

Hardware used to read from or write to a disk or diskette.

Device for recording onto and reading from one type of computer storage disk—either a diskette, or hard disk. Varying sizes and types of disks are not interchangeable among disk drives.

A disk drive is a randomly addressable and rewritable storage device. The term can be broadly interpreted to include optical drives and in earlier times, floppy drives. However, in popular usage, it h [..]

In computing, a generic term for the hardware component that physically manipulates a specific type of magnetic disk (hard, floppy, WORM, Zip), allowing the user to read data from and write data to it [..]

The actual physical hard disk or floppy disk drive, as opposed to the removable media. The media is called a diskette or removable disk. See floppy drive.

A peripheral device that reads and/or writes information on a disk

The part of a computer that reads and writes data onto either a hard disk or an optical disk.

A computer device that can use storage media like floppy disks, hard disks or optical disks.

A disk drive is a technology that enables the reading, writing, deleting and modifying of data on a computer storage disk. It is either a built-in or external component of a disk that manages the disk [..]