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> Granted hard drives kind of resemble "hard disks" still.

No, it is a good example by now. A modern M.2 SSD looks much more like a stick of RAM than any kind of spinning disk.

Sure, spinning hard disks are still around, and might stick around for quite a while (data centers, archival...), but when someone at their desk says "save on disk" nowadays, it increasingly will be on such an entirely non-disk-looking disk.



I've got boxes of 3D printed versions of the "Save" icon from years ago.

They even have aluminium sliding parts and what looks like some sort of disk inside...

/s




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