Chinese word

硬盘

Pronunciation

Pinyinyìng pán

Meaning

  • nounhard drive

Example

我的硬盘容量不够了，要扩展。wǒ de yìng pán róng liàng bú gòu le yào kuò zhǎn

My hard drive does not have enough space, so it needs to be expanded.

Illustration for 硬盘 (hard drive)

More examples

昨天硬盘突然坏了，数据还没备份。zuó tiān yìng pán tū rán huài le shù jù hái méi bèi fèn

Yesterday, my hard drive suddenly failed, and I had not backed up the data yet.

Core concept

A computer's long-term memory bank that keeps files and system data after the power is off.

Common phrases

  • 硬盘容量yìng pán róng liàng

    hard drive capacity

  • 外接硬盘wài jiē yìng pán

    external hard drive

  • 硬盘故障yìng pán gù zhàng

    hard drive failure

Similar words

固态硬盘gù tài yìng pán: A storage device that uses memory chips, has no moving parts, and works quickly with little power.
移动硬盘yí dòng yìng pán: A storage drive in an external case that can be connected to a computer and carried around.
机械硬盘jī xiè yìng pán: A storage device that saves data on spinning magnetic disks.
磁盘cí pán: A flat, disk-shaped medium that stores information through magnetism.

Definition in Chinese

用于保存文件和系统数据的存储装置，传统上指机械式的磁盘驱动器，在现代语境中也常用来指固态硬盘等的存储介质。yòng yú bǎo cún wén jiàn hé xì tǒng shù jù de cún chǔ zhuāng zhì chuán tǒng shàng zhǐ jī xiè shì de cí pán qū dòng qì zài xiàn dài yǔ jìng zhōng yě cháng yòng lái zhǐ gù tài yìng pán děng de cún chǔ jiè zhì

Word origin

硬 (yìng, "hard") + 盘 (pán, "disk") forms a literal name for a hard disk, and the name remains in use as storage technology broadens from rotating disks to solid-state devices.

Usage tips

  • When the context is an upgrade or a hardware fault, this noun usually points to the storage component as a whole rather than to one file, which separates hardware talk from file talk.

Other meanings

  • disknoun

Opposites

  • 云存储yún cún chǔcloud storagenoun

Related words

  • 移动硬盘yí dòng yìng pánportable hard drivenoun
  • 固态硬盘gù tài yìng pánsolid-state drivenoun
  • 外置硬盘wài zhì yìng pánexternal hard drivenoun

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