This is not the first time the President has been criticized for taking a vacation during an urgent situation. During Obama's first term in 2009, Obama addressed the Underwear Bomber situation on television from Hawaii. On the other hand, in 2012 Obama flew back to the mainland midway through his vacation in order to deal with the fiscal cliff negotiations. This year critics cited the recent Sony hack attack as a reason for the president to delay his trip.
SSD (solid-state drive) A solid-state drive (SSD) is a nonvolatile storage device that stores persistent data on solid-state flash memory. Solid-state drives actually aren't hard drives in the traditional sense of the term, as there are no moving parts involved.
Noun. 1. hard drive-computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it. disc drive, disk drive, Winchester drive. drive - (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium. fixed disk, hard disc, hard disk-a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit.