"hold data" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the act of storing and maintaining information. For example, "The computer system was designed to hold data securely."
Those chips temporarily hold data, including the keys to modern data-scrambling algorithms.
The immigration department secretary, Mike Pezzullo, said the department did not hold data on people who were dual citizens.
Mobile-phone companies hold data on an individual's calls and movements.
First, the company protected "the stack"–the logical memory space used by programs to temporarily hold data.
For a pharmaceutical company, it might be the research servers that hold data on promising drug compounds.
They could be required to hold data about every person users correspond with via the sites, The Independent reported.
But, significantly, it would not call for a requirement that companies hold data longer than they do now.
A. A bad sector is an area of the hard disk drive that cannot hold data reliably because of damage or error.
In some cases, the crooks are current or former employees of the company, or they are competitors trying to knock a site offline or hold data for ransom.
But Google Flu Trends does not change any of the ways search engine companies collect and hold data in any meaningful way.
Eventually, each grain's magnetic field will begin to interfere with those of its neighbors, hindering their ability to reliably hold data.
