So add one more to the list: a commercial disk reused for your custom .WAD files can be a bisk.
Disk = round part hidden or no round part
Have I got it!?
"Disc" comes from "discus" (the plate thrown in the Olympics)
"Disk" comes from "diskette" (French for "small disc")
I probably just outed myself as a boomer assuming that was common knowledge.
My late father never quite got out of the habit of calling it the "Winchester" - itself a nickname for a specific IBM drive model.
All of that “in the UK”.
Looking at the store, they’re using “SSD Storage” for SSD.
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A disc refers to optical media, such as an audio CD, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM or DVD-Video disc. Some discs are read-only (ROM), others allow you to burn content (write files) to the disc once (such as a CD-R or DVD-R, unless you do a http://support.apple.com/kb/PH?locale=en\_GBmulti-session burn), and some can be erased and rewritten over many times (such as CD-RW, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM discs).
All discs are removable, meaning when you unmount or eject the disc from your desktop or Finder, it physically comes out of your computer.
A disk refers to magnetic media, such as a floppy disk, the disk in your computer's hard drive, an external hard drive. Disks are always rewritable unless intentionally locked or write-protected. You can easily partition a disk into several smaller volumes too.
Disks are usually sealed inside a metal or plastic casing (often, a disk and its enclosing mechanism are collectively known as a "hard drive").
Published Date: October 26, 2023