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SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

If you use a time machine to go back to 2001 when that was last a thing, you can still use the original terminology. Otherwise you will never need the terms since those concepts no longer exist for drives.

Outside of drives there are plenty of self explanatory terms like primary and secondary which work fine.

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DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Coincidentally that’s the year I finished grad school and was probably at the peak of my tech savviness. Things have changed a lot since then. On all fronts.

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Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I wouldn’t say they no longer exist… ide still occasionally used for optical drives…

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- SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I think the last two motherboards I’ve owned, purchased like 3 years and 8 years ago, did not even have a single IDE port.
  
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- SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Ya know, I remember being confused when someone first used master/slave with me. They had to explain what they meant. I can’t know but I’d venture a guess that primary/secondary would’ve been more clear to me without an explanation. I wouldn’t have intuited why it’s a concept, but I would’ve been able to skip the initial confusion as to how any inanimate object would be called a “slave”
  
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