I heard some people say theyre the same thing, but others are adamant that they have different meanings. Which is it?
Disc seems to be anything with a round and flat outer appearance, where disk seems to refer to any other storage media
I think they’re the same word, though.
Everything on the left is a drive, but only half of them are disks:
Hard Disk Drive
USB pen drive
Floppy Disk Drive
Solid State Drive
A disk is something that contains information. It stands for Dense Inside Stored Knowledge
Dense Information Storage Circle
You know “disc” is actually a weird word.
Like say it a few times out loud
D I S C
It’s all disk? 🌎👨🚀
Always has been 🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀Disc is short for discus.
Disk is short for diskette, the square things some discs are kept in.
Thats how I interpret it as well.
Isn’t a diskette just a small version of a disk? Much like kitchenette to kitchen
I don’t think so https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk
To quote from your source:
8-inch floppy disk, inserted in drive, (3½-inch floppy diskette, in front, shown for scale)
Get outta here with your actual helpful answer
Its a disk when its magnetic, disc when optical.
The way to remember it is that its disk because its magnetik.
Is a plate optical or magnetic?
Depends on how you store data on it. If you write with a pen its optical.
I usually store food on them
What if it’s optikal?
I cannot stress enough how efficiently you ruined my ability to use the memory trick.
Just remember the c in disc is shaped like a magnet.
Now you’ve gone and made things worse.
Including fridge magnets?
Is a VHS tape a disk then?
No, that’s a tape. It has to be dis(c/k) shaped to be a disk.
the tape spooled up on the reel inside a VHS looks like a thi(c/k) dis(c/k)
thic(k/c)
more disk shaped than flash memory.
Linear disk 🤓
Where do magento-optical fit?
disck
Disque
No a disc is round
A disk drive reading disc’s would be a disc disk drive
And if it reads 70s music records, it could be a disc disk disco drive!
disc disk
Got ‘em!
Disq
Disque*
Disque?
Way too cumbersome
Disqueue, then.
Dischqueue
A CD is a disk that is disc shaped.
In systems we consider discs to be optical devices and sometimes just lump any portable media as a “disc”
Once it’s on my system and seen as a device is becomes a
disk
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disk
In most varieties of English, disk is the preferred spelling for magnetic media (hence floppy disk, hard disk, disk drive), whereas disc is preferred for optical media (hence compact disc, digital versatile disc, optical disc). For all other uses, disk is preferred in American English and acceptable in Canadian English, and disc otherwise.
Less commonly, disc is used for magnetic media (as in floppy disc and discette; similarly, disk is sometimes used for optical media, as in compact disk and optical disk.
The reason for this is actually pretty interesting though. Historically it was just a US/UK English difference, but it evolved into both being used because one of the first big manufacturers of optical discs, Philips, called them discs, while the US-based IBM spelled their magnetic disks with a K.
My system’s locale is set to Esperanto so when I insert a CD, it says Sona KD (Kompakta disko).
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.
Disk but with a soft k, like in kif