[dcminter]

Plus a common alternative to "hard drive" was "hard disk."

My late father never quite got out of the habit of calling it the "Winchester" - itself a nickname for a specific IBM drive model.

[onraglanroad]

More modern hard disks included the drive mechanism in one unit.

They used to be separate, so you would mount the hard disk on the drive to make it accessible.

[dcminter]

Yeah, we used to have a couple of the removable phoenix platters knocking around.

Of course now everything tends to be solid state even terms like "drive" are becoming less common.