I heard some people say theyre the same thing, but others are adamant that they have different meanings. Which is it?
I am not sure, but my oldest child was looking at an English brochure for a trip to France and a asked me "what the heck is a dis-coth-a-cue? Discotheque. A Disco, a dance club. And yes disco-tek is spelled Discotheque in English.
Not in America it ain’t. Here it’s spelled “Disco is dead.”
Cool…
I’ve always known disc to refer specifically to optical media.
Disk but with a soft k, like in kif
In systems we consider discs to be optical devices and sometimes just lump any portable media as a “disc”
Once it’s on my system and seen as a device is becomes a
diskMy system’s locale is set to Esperanto so when I insert a CD, it says Sona KD (Kompakta disko).
Disc is short for discus.
Disk is short for diskette, the square things some discs are kept in.
Thats how I interpret it as well.
Isn’t a diskette just a small version of a disk? Much like kitchenette to kitchen
I don’t think so https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk
To quote from your source:
8-inch floppy disk, inserted in drive, (3½-inch floppy diskette, in front, shown for scale)
Get outta here with your actual helpful answer
A CD is a disk that is disc shaped.
Disq
Disque?
Way too cumbersome
Disqueue, then.
Dischqueue
Disque*
Its a disk when its magnetic, disc when optical.
The way to remember it is that its disk because its magnetik.
Is a plate optical or magnetic?
Depends on how you store data on it. If you write with a pen its optical.
I usually store food on them
Is a VHS tape a disk then?
No, that’s a tape. It has to be dis(c/k) shaped to be a disk.
the tape spooled up on the reel inside a VHS looks like a thi(c/k) dis(c/k)
thic(k/c)
more disk shaped than flash memory.
Linear disk 🤓
What if it’s optikal?
I cannot stress enough how efficiently you ruined my ability to use the memory trick.
Just remember the c in disc is shaped like a magnet.
Now you’ve gone and made things worse.
Where do magento-optical fit?
disck
Disque
No a disc is round
Including fridge magnets?
Disck
Same word. Different dialects.
I’ve always viewed it as the Disk contains the Disc. IOW, the floppy has the magnetic disc in it. The optical disc is the disc without the Disk.
Probably completely wrong etymologically, but semantically it’s fun.
Where does that leave my solid state disk?
This is from Hard Disk Drive (HDD), which is a Hard Drive with a Disk. Some people think the HD stands for Hard Disk, and use it incorrectly in SSD, which has no disks.
Oh you’re right is solid state drive not disk
A carryover of terminology?
We still say “film” even though most everything is recorded and played back via digital video.
Disque
Diskette
Petit Disk
I always thought discs were optical and disks were magnetic
You know “disc” is actually a weird word.
Like say it a few times out loud
D I S C
