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Just like a SSD doesn't actually contain a spinning disk, like hard disk drives and floppy disks before it :D Apple labels this as "Capacity" (iOS) and "Storag

• mkl 6y ago
  Solid-State Drive doesn't mention disks.
  • wongarsu 6y ago
    Hard drives are named that way because they are devices that spin (drive) solid disks. Similarly a floppy drive is the device spinning the floppy. You could argue that the solid state drive "drives" things in the sense of "control", or analogous to how a microcontroller drives its pins. But more likely it's named that way because "drive" has become synonymous with storage, as in "C-Drive".
    • tomxor 6y ago
      In OS terminology they are all referred to more abstractly as block devices, i.e everything that is not system memory. But I agree with the OP that calling it ROM makes no sense, it's an SSD, call it what it is.
      • wongarsu 6y ago
        At least in Linux kernel terminology "block device" and "disk" seem to be used almost interchangably, for example the gendisk structure with the accompanying add_disk, alloc_disk, etc methods for creating block devices [1]. Meanwhile on a API level Windows talks about "disk drives" that abstract over "physical media" [2], but when talking to end users uses "hard drive" as the generic term, like in the sentence "You can install Windows to a hard drive, such as a hard disk drive or a solid-state drive" [3] 1: https://linux-kernel-labs.github.io/refs/heads/master/labs/block_device_drivers.html https://linux-kernel-labs.github.io/refs/heads/master/labs/b... 2: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/cimwin32a/win32-diskdrivephysicalmedia https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/d... 3: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/hard-drives-and-partitions https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactur...