[Tichy]

What would be a good replacement? A little cloud perhaps? :-) Or somebody engraving something on a stone tablet (timeless)?

[Wevah]

I use an arrow pointing down to a 2D HD icon. Perhaps not the best imagery, but I guess I feel like I can afford to buck tradition.

[couriernew]

In a way, that's only postponing the same result as the floppy disk icon.

[Wevah]

All too true.

[Oestrogen]

And how many non-geeky users know what a hard drive looks like?