I heard some people say theyre the same thing, but others are adamant that they have different meanings. Which is it?
Disk but with a soft k, like in kif
Disk is short for diskette
And disc is short for discotheque.
^not really^
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
diskSame word. Different dialects.
Its a disk when its magnetic, disc when optical.
The way to remember it is that its disk because its magnetik.
Is a VHS tape a disk then?
No, that’s a tape. It has to be dis(c/k) shaped to be a disk.
the tape spooled up on the reel inside a VHS looks like a thi(c/k) dis(c/k)
more disk shaped than flash memory.
thic(k/c)
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What if it’s optikal?
I cannot stress enough how efficiently you ruined my ability to use the memory trick.
Just remember the c in disc is shaped like a magnet.
Now you’ve gone and made things worse.
No a disc is round
ur a disc
Is a plate optical or magnetic?
Depends on how you store data on it. If you write with a pen its optical.
I usually store food on them
So… neither?
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Including fridge magnets?
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My god I have not laughed that hard in a long time
disck
Disque
Disquette
But what if it’s magnetic?
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”. "
A CD is a disk that is disc shaped.
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.
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.
You’ve exceeded my “learning cool stuff” limit today. Thank you. Now I can’t retain any other information.
I’ve always viewed it as the Disk contains the Disc. IOW, the floppy has the magnetic disc in it. The optical disc is the disc without the Disk.
Probably completely wrong etymologically, but semantically it’s fun.
Where does that leave my solid state disk?
A carryover of terminology?
We still say “film” even though most everything is recorded and played back via digital video.
This is from Hard Disk Drive (HDD), which is a Hard Drive with a Disk. Some people think the HD stands for Hard Disk, and use it incorrectly in SSD, which has no disks.
Oh you’re right is solid state drive not disk
My system’s locale is set to Esperanto so when I insert a CD, it says Sona KD (Kompakta disko).
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
Disque
Diskette
Petit Disk
It’s all disk? 🌎👨🚀
Always has been 🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀They’re all the same word at their core, evolving from the older Latin word. The difference just comes in how the words were used to describe either a computer related device, hard disk, floppy disk, or a sound carrying device, disc record, compact disc.
I always thought discs were optical and disks were magnetic
