>I think not everyone saw a photo of an open hard disk. Maybe not, but it does have the word "disc" (misspelled "disk"), so I think most computer users (and I

>I think not everyone saw a photo of an open hard disk. Maybe not, but it does have the word "disc" (misspelled "disk"), so I think most computer users (and I mean people who would actually use a "save to disk" button; most mobile-only users probably never do now) would make the connection. >Almost nobody born today will hold a hard disk in their hands. We'll be back to the floppy disk problem soon. Depends on your definition of "soon". Seems to me my solution would buy us another 20 years at least. >The correct solution should be an icon about the very idea of persisting data or making it safe. That's much easier said than done. If there was an easy way of depicting this with a graphic icon, I think it would have been done in the last 40+ years. This thread, and surely countless like it over the years in various places, show that no one seems to have any good ideas for a simple graphic icon to express this concept.