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I heard some people say theyre the same thing, but others are adamant that they have different meanings. Which is it?
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As others have said and how I always see it:
In other words, all disks are discs, but not all discs are disks.
Here's a shitty drawing I made to illustrate:
But...
I was wondering how CD-RW works, if anyone else wants to know:
https://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.
upvoted for your spiffy drawing, although i don't agree with it
Lol, thanks.
What about my distinction do you disagree with, though?
I don’t think the differentiation makes any sense at all.
edit: to clarify-- this isn't a criticism of the op's sketch; i just don't think any attempt makes sense
my attempt to simplify the above explanation; -disc =round -disk =storage
Storage can be round but not all round things are storage
But that doesn't cover the round storage we call compact discs. It's just nonsensical
I mean to me compact disc sounds like small and round. Just happens to also be storage media 🤷♂️
There's nothing wrong with over thinking a shitpost, right?
Does not make send but it is true though.
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.
You have to put a segment of "disk" outside of the "disc" set on that Venn diagram. You are forgetting about solid state disks.
But SSD is solid state drive, not solid state disc/disk