Comment on Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words?

HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• ArbiterXero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You need to spend more time with hardcore tech nerds 😝

  You’re right, mostly people don’t call them that, but they do qualify and all the low level systems call them disks

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I remember when SSDs were still new, trying to install one on an older system and in the process the system needing to know the “number of sectors on the disk” which… SSDs don’t have sectors. It was a confusing thing to get through at the time, but I recall figuring it out.

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    • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And you had to get the partition aligned (?) when you formatted it. I had a 128GB OCZ Agility I paid like $380 for. It was amazing loading in way before everyone in games, I remember always being first in my WoW clan raids. Left 4 Dead 2 also ripped on that SSD. It died within a year and the RMA replacement died within year as well. RIP

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      • ArbiterXero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ocz plus? lol

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But they’re still referred to as “drives” when arguably they aren’t that anymore, either. It’s really tough to ditch a moniker sometimes.

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• Denjin@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s from diskette which is a portmanteau of disk and cassette which is from the early days or portable storage where cassettes were used to house disks to keep them safe from damage. For example floppy disk.

  Because they form a similar job, portable storage, modern day usb pen drives and ssds are often referred to as disks.

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