On May 13, 2010, at 2:32 PM, iJohn wrote:
In my experience it's much more common to use "disc" or "disk" with talking about optical media such as DVDs or CDs.
In my experience the correct nomenclature is that an optical drive has a removable disc with a "c", and a hard drive is a non-removable disk with a "k". The distinction is whether or not the device is removable in which case a "c" is used, such as in floppy disc, CD disc, DVD disc, Blu-ray disc; or is fixed into the hardware of the computer, such as hard drive disk, laptop disk, RAM disk, external disk drive. A "C" is circular like a CD disc, and a "K" is roughly square like a HD disk.
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