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"Disks" as in floppy disks, are removable also. Some weird seperation choices in this 'article'.

• dcminter 9mo ago
  Plus a common alternative to "hard drive" was "hard disk." My late father never quite got out of the habit of calling it the "Winchester" - itself a nickname for a specific IBM drive model.
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  • onraglanroad 9mo ago
    More modern hard disks included the drive mechanism in one unit. They used to be separate, so you would mount the hard disk on the drive to make it accessible.
    • dcminter 9mo ago
      Yeah, we used to have a couple of the removable phoenix platters knocking around. Of course now everything tends to be solid state even terms like "drive" are becoming less common.