That's just one context. "Media" and "medium" are common in other situations. For example: - "A hard drive is one of the many storage media available for compu

That's just one context. "Media" and "medium" are common in other situations. For example: - "A hard drive is one of the many storage media available for computers.", "Blu-ray is an optical storage medium". - "This work of art is mixed-media", "the medium for this work is acrylic on canvas".