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What's the difference between a disk and a drive?

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Mar 15, 202634734 views
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Would this make the term 'disk drive' a slight misnomer? Also, I thought RAM was equivalent to the term 'volatile' memory, but apprently 'hard disk drives' are also RAM and not ROM... any clarification is appreciated!

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Yeah, the terms have become a bit messy. The term "drive" originally referred to the thing moving the storage media - like a floppy drive is something you put a floppy disk into and it spins it. A tape drive is the thing that drives the tape around …

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