This enables any partition on local hard disks to be freely accessed for update.

Sympathetic to the realities of network connections, and the fact that, unlike local disks, they're not 100 percent reliable.

Security concerns regarding access to the local disk on the temporary computer have also been raised.

Readers and posters logged into these computers reading the articles directly from the local disk.

It can also be used in cluster computing, in which nodes may not have local disks.

Snort monitors the link for security events, and logs them to a file on the local disk.

A catalog may reference a collection of media files on a local disk, a music subscription service like Yahoo!

Files from the cloud are accessed as if they were on a local disk or a mounted network file share.

Using local hard disks as caches is the main concept of hierarchical storage management.

Its original purpose, which was finding files and content on the computer's local disk, has been transformed into a more general "find" utility program.