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Hard = hardqare of a PC<br />
Drive= &quot;a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine&quot;<br />
<a href="http://www.elook.org/dictionary/drive.html" rel="ugc">http://www.elook.org/dictionary/drive.html</a>
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Hard = hardqare of a PC
Drive= "a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine"
http://www.elook.org/dictionary/drive.html [http://www.elook.org/dictionary/drive.html]

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Thanks.  A teacher wants to share this with her middle school class.  This is explained in a way they will be able to grasp.  Now she must explain what a tape is--LOL!
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Thanks.  A teacher wants to share this with her middle school class.  This is explained in a way they will be able to grasp.  Now she must explain what a tape is--LOL!

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Edit:<br />
Hard = hardware of a PC<br />
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And a better quote for Drive:<br />
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&quot;&nbsp;(computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium&quot;<br />
&nbsp;<a href="http://ardictionary.com/Drive/9612" rel="ugc">http://ardictionary.com/Drive/9612</a>
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Edit:
Hard = hardware of a PC

And a better quote for Drive:

" (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium"
 http://ardictionary.com/Drive/9612 [http://ardictionary.com/Drive/9612]

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I was asked this question and I do not know the answer:<br />
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Why is the hard drive called a &quot;Drive&quot;?
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I was asked this question and I do not know the answer:

Why is the hard drive called a "Drive"?

Hard Drive

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.

Storage Hardware

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.