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by throwawaymath 2343 days ago
Apple has icons for SSDs. They are shown in the article right after this:

> So what should Apple do? Customized icons for different types of drives would be a good start. Time Machine drives get custom icons automatically, as do many other types of storage devices that were more common in the past, so surely Apple could design different icons for SSDs and Fusion Drives, and then display them appropriately based on the type of drive.

Apple could repurpose one of the existing SSD icons pretty easily.
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CrazyStat 2343 days ago
> so surely Apple could design different icons for SSDs and Fusion Drives,

That doesn't sound like Apple has icons for SSDs already.

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throwawaymath 2343 days ago
Apple actually does. Like I said, that icon is in the article, right after the paragraph I quoted. Look at the images the author included.

The author is making the point that this shouldn't take much effort because Apple already uses different icons.

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CrazyStat 2343 days ago
Which one of those is supposed to be an SSD icon? Top row we have, from left to right, generic external drive, an optical disk drive, time machine, icloud, shared (network) drive, CD. Bottom row we have three types of floppy disks, a Sony MemoryStick, a CompactFlash, and and SD card.

There's no SSD icon.

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