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A device that spins disks or tapes in order to read and write data; for example, a hard drive, floppy drive, CD-ROM drive, or tape drive.
There can also be logical drives: When the storage space of a hard disk is logically (i. e. at a software level and not hardware) partitionned, each partition is called a drive. This is because partitions behave like independant entities same as though there were several hard disks.