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and then we got solid-state storage and the entire terminology is just terminally bonkers now

we have "disks" that are neither diskettes nor disc-shaped (the actual chips are rectangular), "disk drives" that don't interact with dis[ck]s and don't drive anything (not in a mechanical sense anyway), and the "solid-state" part refers to no moving parts but of course the stuff with moving parts is also all in a solid state of matter, generally