[gentoo-dev] Re: s/disk space/drive space

[Chris Brannon]

Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> writes:

> Also, "drive space" would be dead wrong. A drive[1] is a device which
> holds a storage medium (often a disk, as in, you know, a "disk drive").
> "Solid-state drive" is even more confusing than "solid-state disk" (and
> both are common parlance).

In the interest of linguistic accuracy, maybe solid state drives should
be referred to as "solid state data depositories".  That would overload
one of my favorite acronyms.

-- Chris