Subj : Re: Is a PC optical drive
To   : Nightfox
From : boraxman
Date : Sat Apr 26 2025 10:35 pm

-=> Nightfox wrote to boraxman <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: Is a PC optical drive a "player"?
 Ni>   By: boraxman to Nightfox on Fri Apr 25 2025 01:35 pm

 bo> Also, what is up with people calling them "Hard Drives", when they should
 bo> be "Hard Disks", or better yet, "Winchesters".

 Ni> Doesn't "disk" refer to the actual round platter(s) inside it?  I
 Ni> always thought it was called a "drive" because it's a device that
 Ni> drives the motion of the disks, similar to how a screwdriver is used to
 Ni> "drive" the screw into the wood by turning it.

 Ni> Also I've never heard the term "Winchester" for a storage device..?

Yes, the disk is the disk inside, and the drive, drives it.  But "Hard
Disk" and "Hard Drive" are used interchangeably, both correct in a
way.

My point is that "cd player" is fine, if its a CD-ROM drive that
doesn't also burn disks.

Winchester was a type of hard disk.

From Wikipedia...

> Also in 1973, IBM introduced the IBM 3340 "Winchester" disk drive and
> the 3348 data module, the first significant commercial use of low mass
> and low load heads with lubricated platters and the last IBM disk
> drive with removable media. This technology and its derivatives
> remained the standard through 2011. Project head Kenneth Haughton
> named it after the Winchester 30-30 rifle because it was planned to
> have two 30 MB spindles; however, the actual product shipped with two
> spindles for data modules of either 35 MB or 70 MB.[14] The name
> 'Winchester' and some derivatives are still common in some non-English
> speaking countries to generally refer to any hard disks (e.g. Hungary,
> Russia).
 
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