Re: Media? Medium? Or???

[Jan Henning <henning -at- r-l -dot- de>]

>Some of you on this list have no doubt run into this situation... having to
>refer to storage media in a non-specific way. How did you handle it?

Usually, "disk" does fine. It covers:

- Floppies
- All kinds of CDs
- All kinds of DVDs
- Exchangeable hard drives (Syquest, Jaz, etc.)
- MO disks, including WORM

There are just two types of mass storage it does not cover:

- PC Cards (previously known as PCMCIA)
- Tapes

Of course, if you use "disk", you run a slight risk of future
incomprehension, e.g., when holographic storage becomes widely used, so
there is something to be said for using "media" or "medium", ugly as it is.

Regards
Jan Henning

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