I heard some people say theyre the same thing, but others are adamant that they have different meanings. Which is it?
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.
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". "
Disk but with a soft k, like in kif
A disk is something that contains information. It stands for Dense Inside Stored Knowledge
I've been known to use them interchangeably.
It's British English (disc) vs American English (disk).
Edit: I present the Sony Portable Hard Disc Drive
It's from diskette. Not about what country the spelling is from.
Prepare to have your mind blown.
Portable Hard Disc Drive https://pro.sony/en_GB/products/portable-storage/psz-hb-b-series
I don't doubt the diskette comment since it's an American invention. But sometimes this nuance shows up.
Has nothing to do with country. Discs are round objects. In the computing sense that's cds, dvds, etc.
Disks are floppy disks(diskette, "discette" never existed as a word) , hard drive disks.... etc. There is a difference and it has nothing to do with what land you're in. Disk in usa never meant a circular object like a Frisbee (discus for example)
But the floppy diskette and the "hard disks" did in fact have circular discs inside that spin around.
I suspect that the word diskette was created as an analog to tape "cassette". With both diskette and cassette, the media is stored inside an enclosure, and you don't have to take it out manually.
"-Ette" is a common diminutive used to imply that something is a smaller version of something else. Like many things, we nicked it from the French.
Cigarette, a little cigar. Featurette, a short feature. Novelette, a miniature novel. Etc.
So, diskette, a little disk. Quite separate from the ones spinning in your company's mainframe at the time. Those ones were two feet in diameter locked in a steel cabinet that weighs two tons. This one can fit in your shirt pocket. You get the idea.
This feels like it makes sense.
Considering "cassette" is the diminutive form of "casse" which meant "case," this seems right. This meant that the magnetic tape was held in a "diminutive case" which was arguably true when compared to records and 8-tracks.
So, diskettes also being magnetic, also being encased in something, and also being the diminutive form of a larger thing tracks.
By george, I think they've got it.
I think they got that from Wikipedia
Jerboa won't let me post a screenshot right now but here's a link
It's the same thing. The difference is origin. Disk is American. Disc is British. Usually the only time "disc" is used in the US, is to refer to something round. A CD could go either way, depending on the writer.
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