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I heard some people say theyre the same thing, but others are adamant that they have different meanings. Which is it?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Everything on the left is a drive, but only half of them are disks:

Hard Disk Drive

USB pen drive

Floppy Disk Drive

Solid State Drive

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disk

In most varieties of English, disk is the preferred spelling for magnetic media (hence floppy disk, hard disk, disk drive), whereas disc is preferred for optical media (hence compact disc, digital versatile disc, optical disc). For all other uses, disk is preferred in American English and acceptable in Canadian English, and disc otherwise.

Less commonly, disc is used for magnetic media (as in floppy disc and discette; similarly, disk is sometimes used for optical media, as in compact disk and optical disk.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The reason for this is actually pretty interesting though. Historically it was just a US/UK English difference, but it evolved into both being used because one of the first big manufacturers of optical discs, Philips, called them discs, while the US-based IBM spelled their magnetic disks with a K.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You've exceeded my "learning cool stuff" limit today. Thank you. Now I can't retain any other information.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Disk is short for diskette

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And disc is short for discotheque.

^not really^

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Perhaps it's just a leftover marketing motif?

"The spelling disk and disc are used interchangeably except where trademarks preclude one usage, e.g., the Compact Disc logo. The choice of a particular form is frequently historical, as in IBM's usage of the disk form beginning in 1956 with the "IBM 350 disk storage unit". "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_storage

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

In systems we consider discs to be optical devices and sometimes just lump any portable media as a “disc”

Once it’s on my system and seen as a device is becomes a disk

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Disk but with a soft k, like in kif

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

A CD is a disk that is disc shaped.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Its a disk when its magnetic, disc when optical.

The way to remember it is that its disk because its magnetik.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is a plate optical or magnetic?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depends on how you store data on it. If you write with a pen its optical.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I usually store food on them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

So... neither?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

But what if it's magnetic?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is a VHS tape a disk then?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, that's a tape. It has to be dis(c/k) shaped to be a disk.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

the tape spooled up on the reel inside a VHS looks like a thi(c/k) dis(c/k)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

more disk shaped than flash memory.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Including fridge magnets?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I cannot stress enough how efficiently you ruined my ability to use the memory trick.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just remember the c in disc is shaped like a magnet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Now you've gone and made things worse.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Same word. Different dialects.

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