| ▲ | ChrisArchitect 2 hours ago |
| "Disks" as in floppy disks, are removable also. Some weird seperation choices in this 'article'. |
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| ▲ | dcminter 2 hours ago | parent [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | onraglanroad 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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 an hour ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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