From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] s/disk space/drive space
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:57:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20983.47184.954746.744721@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51F7AF3F.7010804@plaimi.net>
>>>>> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
> On 30/07/13 14:12, Alex Legler wrote:
>> 'disk space' is a perfectly valid term even if you have fancy solid
>> state drives these days. It is an established term in technical
>> documentation that everyone understands even if you don't
>> physically use a 'disk'.
+1
> It's *wrong*. In school we were even taught to avoid it. :-)
It can hardly be more wrong than "drive". A solid state device doesn't
contain any mechanical components like motors that would drive it.
Ulrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-30 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-30 11:50 [gentoo-dev] s/disk space/drive space Alexander Berntsen
2013-07-30 12:00 ` Michał Górny
2013-07-30 12:01 ` Alexander Berntsen
2013-07-30 12:12 ` Alex Legler
2013-07-30 12:17 ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2013-07-30 12:19 ` Alexander Berntsen
2013-07-30 12:55 ` Douglas Freed
2013-07-30 13:03 ` Alexander Berntsen
2013-07-30 14:40 ` vivo75
2013-07-30 14:53 ` Rich Freeman
2013-07-30 20:00 ` Jeroen Roovers
2013-07-31 0:13 ` Walter Dnes
2013-07-31 15:22 ` [gentoo-dev] " Chris Brannon
2013-07-31 16:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ian Stakenvicius
2013-07-30 12:57 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
[not found] ` < 51F7AF3F.7010804@plaimi.net>
[not found] ` <20983.47184.954746.744721@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz .de>
2013-07-30 14:31 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-07-30 14:43 ` Tobias Klausmann
2013-07-30 13:02 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Weber
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