This is goofy. The difference was originally regional (US/UK), and which caught on depended on which product dominated which sub-market. There's no semantic difference.
fainpul 13 minutes ago [-]
And where is the "drive" in an SSD?
Trying to explain arbitrary words with logic always fails.
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coffee-- 29 minutes ago [-]
There was a subculture communicating on FIDOnet about collecting AOL installation media (3.5" disks) and reusing them. Somehow we ended up coining the term "bisk" to refer to AOL's given-away media, and much sadness was had when they moved to CDs.
So add one more to the list: a commercial disk reused for your custom .WAD files can be a bisk.
Gualdrapo 2 minutes ago [-]
When I was much more active in Reddit did one time a meme for r/peloton of Froome yelling at disc brakes - but wrote it as "Old man yells at disk brakes".
Nobody told me anything so I guessed it was good grammar and such.
But then noticed everyone calls them "disc brakes"
bonesss 11 minutes ago [-]
The last letter.
[Did I pass the interview? No? Understandable.]
rikthevik 17 minutes ago [-]
A disc looks like a disc, and a disk doesn't look like a disc.
dheera 5 minutes ago [-]
What about bloc vs block
ghurtado 30 minutes ago [-]
Kinda surprising that the article doesn't mention the actual origin of the words:
"Disc" comes from "discus" (the plate thrown in the Olympics)
"Disk" comes from "diskette" (French for "small disc")
I probably just outed myself as a boomer assuming that was common knowledge.
forty 4 minutes ago [-]
Disquette*
In French we say disque for both. it's pronounced the same as disk and disc.
rf15 23 minutes ago [-]
You are (rightfully) saying that they semantically mean kinda the same thing. That doesn't neatly fit any branding guideline though, I'm sorry.
bitwize 5 minutes ago [-]
Both versions are disque in French. (presumably disquette for "diskette") Don't blame the French for this.
The fact of the matter is that the spelling "disk" probably entered common use from IBM who invented both the hard and the floppy disk, calling the latter the Type 1 Diskette. Enough people were exposed to the "disk" spelling from IBM usage that it kind of stuck, although in the early 1980s the spelling "floppy disc" was sometimes encountered.
DonHopkins 4 minutes ago [-]
Pff! Disc comes from Disco!
gaigalas 12 minutes ago [-]
Apple, the etymology company.
dTal 35 minutes ago [-]
Disc = round part visible
Disk = round part hidden or no round part
Have I got it!?
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Someone 26 minutes ago [-]
I think their primary difference is disc = optical, disk = magnetic. That’s what they mention first.
All of that “in the UK”.
Looking at the store, they’re using “SSD Storage” for SSD.
Symbiote 14 minutes ago [-]
The British spelling was used by Philips when they launched the Compact Disc with Sony.
Disk was used by American companies inventing hard disks, floppy disks etc.
British software often used "disc" for both, e.g. RISC OS on Acorn/ARM/Raspberry Pi [1].
SSD, of course, stands for Solid State Dis[c,k]...
ChrisArchitect 27 minutes ago [-]
"Disks" as in floppy disks, are removable also. Some weird seperation choices in this 'article'.
dcminter 18 minutes ago [-]
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.
jolmg 3 minutes ago [-]
If we go by how the terms are separate with optical media (and floppy drives vs floppy disks), "disk" refers to the round, flat storage medium inside the thing, and "drive" refers to the rotating mechanism and reader/writer inside it the thing. HDDs have both, hence they have both/either names.
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Trying to explain arbitrary words with logic always fails.
So add one more to the list: a commercial disk reused for your custom .WAD files can be a bisk.
Nobody told me anything so I guessed it was good grammar and such.
But then noticed everyone calls them "disc brakes"
[Did I pass the interview? No? Understandable.]
"Disc" comes from "discus" (the plate thrown in the Olympics)
"Disk" comes from "diskette" (French for "small disc")
I probably just outed myself as a boomer assuming that was common knowledge.
In French we say disque for both. it's pronounced the same as disk and disc.
The fact of the matter is that the spelling "disk" probably entered common use from IBM who invented both the hard and the floppy disk, calling the latter the Type 1 Diskette. Enough people were exposed to the "disk" spelling from IBM usage that it kind of stuck, although in the early 1980s the spelling "floppy disc" was sometimes encountered.
Disk = round part hidden or no round part
Have I got it!?
All of that “in the UK”.
Looking at the store, they’re using “SSD Storage” for SSD.
Disk was used by American companies inventing hard disks, floppy disks etc.
British software often used "disc" for both, e.g. RISC OS on Acorn/ARM/Raspberry Pi [1].
[1] https://arcwiki.org.uk/index.php/RISC_OS_3 (see screenshot)
My late father never quite got out of the habit of calling it the "Winchester" - itself a nickname for a specific IBM drive model.