upvoted for your spiffy drawing, although i don’t agree with it
Comment on Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words?
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 1 week ago
As others have said and how I always see it:
- Discs are small, circular, flat objects, e.g. the discus;
- Disks are discs used for computer stuff, e.g. floppy disk(ettes), CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, hard disks, and so forth…
In other words, all disks are discs, but not all discs are disks.
Here’s a shitty drawing I made to illustrate:
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 1 week ago
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Lol, thanks.
What about my distinction do you disagree with, though?
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t think the differentiation makes any sense at all.
proper@lemmy.world 1 week ago
my attempt to simplify the above explanation; -disc =round -disk =storage
Storage can be round but not all round things are storage
dragnucs@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Does not make send but it is true though.
ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Computer usage doesn’t determine that you spell it with a k.
A disk is indeed short for diskette, and disc is short for discus.
However, you can absolutely use a compact disc on a computer.
And while there are typically spinning platters or spinning magnetic strips inside hard drive disks or floppy disks, they are referred to by the whole unit as a logical disk drive that you’d see in computer.
If it’s possible to find them all now, you’d see that DVDs, CDs, Blu-ray, laserdisc, are all spelled like discus. 3.5, 4.5 floppy disks, hard drives, solid state drives, tape drives, etc all spell it disk.
So for the most part, being purely observational, you can see that anything shaped like a frisbee with a hole in it will be a disc, and everything else is a disk.
I think that’s slightly different than your explanation, as the terms are mutually exclusive.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You have to put a segment of “disk” outside of the “disc” set on that Venn diagram. You are forgetting about solid state disks.
Johandea@feddit.nu 1 week ago
But SSD is solid state drive, not solid state disc/disk
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 1 week ago
But…
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Oaksey@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I was wondering how CD-RW works, if anyone else wants to know:
electronics.howstuffworks.com/question655.htm. They have a layer that can change between clear and opaque that is changed by having different temperatures applied to it.