If you Google it, it's a pretty common phrase referring to magnetic disk as opposed to SSD. Could even be applied to drum, I suppose, if you could still find any...
I would go so far as to say this is the standard informal/slang way to distinguish rotating magnetic media from optical/solid-state media, and off the cuff I'd say it has been since the advent of consumer optical media about 30 years ago.
I'm not, but I appreciate your confidence in asserting so.
Finding evidence of that term being used has no bearing on how widespread that term was. Just because you've encountered it doesn't mean it is as widespread as you seem to assume.
You remind me of people I would meet in one state, who would use certain slang or have certain customs particular to that state and insisted it was a USA wide custom, despite having never left their state.
I very quickly get the impression you are one of those "need to have the last word" types, so I won't be responding to you further.
100% relevant and I was going to point it out to you myself.
It is OK to not know stuff. It is not OK to argue that because you didn't know something lots of other people do, that the thing is is obscure or nonstandard or weird.
Just because you've been exposed to that term does'nt mean it's as widespread as you seem to think it is.
You remind me of people I would meet in one state, who would use certain slang or have certain customs particular to that state and insisted it was a USA wide custom, despite having never left their state.
I very quickly get the impression you are one of those "need to have the last word" types, so I won't be responding to you further.
