机械硬盘

機械硬盤

jīxièyìngpán

noun

Measure Word

一块机械硬盘 kuài

Meanings

1 hard disk drive
2 HDD
3 mechanical hard drive

Characters

Examples

机械硬盘比固态硬盘便宜得多。

Jīxièyìngpán bǐ gùtàiyìngpán piányi de duō.

HDDs are much cheaper than SSDs.

他把大文件都存在机械硬盘里。

Tā bǎ dà wénjiàn dōu cún zài jīxièyìngpán lǐ.

He stores all his large files on the mechanical hard drive.

Tips

usage

Coined to distinguish spinning-platter HDDs from 固态硬盘 (SSDs) once SSDs became common. Before ~2010 you would just say 硬盘 for any disk; now 机械 ('mechanical') flags the older spinning-disk technology.

Stroke Order

机 jī

械 xiè

硬 yìng

盘 pán