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Is daily usually placed before or after the main verb? It is not possible to effectively check it by searching the Web because daily is the adjective as well.

Security for OEM storage is tied to the host system which verifies daily the drive and creates unique encryption keys to prevent theft.

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    This way is how I would typically expect to see it in US English: "Security for OEM storage is tied to the host system which verifies the drive daily and creates unique encryption keys to prevent theft." (Though my lead-in sentence does just the opposite with "typically"!) I hope our better versed site pundits can explain why it's usually one way over the other. :-)
    – Kristina Lopez
    Jul 10, 2015 at 15:43

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This is an interesting case. The conventional usage would be verifies the drive daily.

None of these are incorrect, but only the first is common:

He had his brakes checked yearly

He had his breaks yearly checked

He yearly checked his brakes

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  • Too subtle for me. "Only the first is common" is understatement. The google finds about 4K results for "yearly checked," and the first few pages are almost all non-textual uses or translations. Over 34K results for "checked yearly."
    – deadrat
    Jul 11, 2015 at 4:08

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