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by Lagged2Death
4324 days ago
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It's a sign of the times. "Hard drive" has come to mean simply "nonvolatile local storage." Some people who know better even talk about "SSD hard drives" without snark or irony. It wasn't that long ago that "hard disk" meant "3.5 inch floppy disk" to many people. Pedantically speaking, they were wrong, too, but the little floppies were hard to the touch and they did store files. It made sense. It's a triumph, in a sense, that so many people are at least able to grasp the function of this invisible machine (the hard drive) even if they aren't using the term in an engineer's excruciatingly precise and correct way. |
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