people often ask me; "Foone, you're an amateur physical media historian, when is it spelled disc, and when is it disk?"
Well it's simple:
Discs grow down from the ceiling, and disks grow up from the floor.
Well it's simple:
Discs grow down from the ceiling, and disks grow up from the floor.
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...blast... where's that freaking "change my mind" image when you need it...??? :P
https://youtu.be/dN8Z7y_QcwE?si=U_X00zOL_JH1-wB6
disc for unprotected, child-scratch laden formats like CD and DVD
disk for the kind with protective shells/cases like floppy disks and hard drives
or at least, that’s the way i was taught.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/disc-vs-disk-usage-history-spelling
Discs are circular
I guess most answers are jokes, but afaik it's Disk when short for Diskette, which I always understood to be a disc in its integrated protective case.
But yeah MiniDisc breaks the naming convention, but is a Diskette.
I only wish BluRay was in a Diskette.
LaserDisc
I think that was how I saw RoTJ for the first time
Discs were hard
Discs are compact.
I made that whole thing up btw that's just how I spell it
(he still had six thousand guys when he punked)
Disk - Albany
Isn’t it disc to refer to the media type and disk to refer to the throwing type, and shockingly not an overseas thing
Compact or vinyl disc
Eons ago, I noticed I had mistyped it on a PC and it read "Festlatte" (fest=hard, fixed, strong, rigid; latte=slat, bar, lath, and colloquially: boner).
Being a quirky teenager I cheekily adopted this for all my PCs…
Nobody ever noticed, it was my secret little in-joke :D
On Sunday you should know better than to try and utter its name, lest the ghosts of lost media wipe your drive.
1. If it has any glitter or a mirror like finish, and the drive spins it around in a way it can be seen, it is “discotheque”.
2. If it uses sand or stones in its production and is heavy and grey in color, it is “discrete”.
(Not a serious answer at all)