I notice a lot of people from Asia, European, and non-north American call hard drives as hard disk instead of hard drive.
Does any one know why some people call hard drive as hard disk?
My best guest is in America, people are more macho/masculine, and hard drive sound more macho then hard disk which does not sound as masculine, so the marketing department at computer companies rather use the term hard drive.
Indeed, it makes sense, there are disk inside of it. But, I wonder why it is not spelled disc like how people refer to CDs as Compact Disc instead of disk.
The term hard disk also can sound perverted if you replace the S with a C in disk or the person saying the praise has bad pronunciation which sounds like hard di*k. North Americans also don't like perverted sounding words in their flyers and ads since Americans can be very conservative when it comes to words, and want their ads to be child friendly as possible.
Well if you want the full term, it's 'hard disk drive'. 😛
The obvious reason for this is that a hard drive is mechanical. Inside of the casing, there is a spinning disk. It's read by heads - one for reading, one for writing. 🙂
They're technically called "Hard Disk Drives" that's why you see it abbreviated as HDD. It's a mouthful to say though, so some people went with hard drive and others with hard disk.
I just usually call it C:\ drive as well or just drives in "My Computer"/Computer in Windows Explorer when talking to Windows users which don't know much about computers.
