Subj : Re: Is a PC optical drive
To   : STORMTROOPER
From : Cougar428
Date : Sat Apr 26 2025 08:17 am

-=> Quoting Stormtrooper to Nigel Reed <=-

NR> only play from it. That said, not sure where the term "drive" comes
NR> from because hard drives don't really go any where. Then again, where
NR> are 3 1/2" disks called floppies because they're not floppy at all. So

St> I suspect... that hard drive is a throw back to them good old days
St> when your HD was the size of a fridge and you had to install the
St> platters in it.  In a real sense you inserted platters into the drive
St> mechanism. Probably hung on after the platters became integrated and
St> the devices much smaller..

Every mechanical (non solid state) drive has platters. And they also
have heads in them, but unlike some peoples fridge where the head's
don't move - the ones in the hard drive do.

I know, I know.

Booo.

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