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Subject:RE: hard disk or hard drive? From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 7 Nov 2002 09:17:08 -0500
The drive contains a disk, along with electronics, actuators, mounting
infrastructure, interface components, etc. The hard disk is the rotating
platters in the hard drive.
This is along the same line as diskette drive and diskette. The diskette is
the equiv of the hard disk and the diskette drive the equiv to the hard
drive.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
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From: pdenchfield -at- yahoo -dot- com [mailto:pdenchfield -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 6:20 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: hard disk or hard drive?
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Can any of you point me to references describing the difference between
"hard disk" and "hard drive"? The Microsoft Manual of Style (1998 edition)
prefers "hard disk" but I'd like to base my decision on a broad set of
resources.
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