机械硬盘

機械硬盤

jīxiè yìngpán

noun

Measure Word

一块机械硬盘 kuài

Meanings

1 hard disk drive
2 HDD
3 mechanical hard drive

Characters

Examples

HSK 7-9

机械硬盘比固态硬盘便宜得多。

Jīxiè yìngpán bǐ gùtài yìngpán piányi de duō.

HDDs are much cheaper than SSDs.

HSK 7-9

他把大文件都存在机械硬盘里。

Tā bǎ dà wénjiàn dōu cún zài jīxiè yìngpán 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