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It's a very common and I think reasonable way to refer to them - for most consumers there are two types of disk to care about, "old = spinning" and "new = flash
by swores 3y ago
It's a very common and I think reasonable way to refer to them - for most consumers there are two types of disk to care about, "old = spinning" and "new = flash". Old doesn't mean "and no longer has any use", just that it's the older of the two main options.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoIt is common, and silly. Also the terms are not neutral and there is no reason to apply those terms in this case other than to indicate the imagined relative worth. IE, helium is not used in old disks, it is used in spinning disks.