Is a hard disk and a hard drive the same?

Answer 1

Yes, most standard hard disks are mechanical magnetic disks. Magnetic media is more of a general term for a family of disk formats including standard hard disk, floppy disks, and zip disks. In the next few years solid state disks will gradually begin to replace magnetic hard disk media.

Answer 2

Similarities: 1) They're both round 2) They're both used to store data 3) They both spin when in use. Differences: 1) Hard disks use electro-magnetism to alter the orientation of iron particles to represent the 0s and 1s of digital data 2) CDs use a laser to carve 'pits' and 'valleys' on the plastic substrate to represent the 0s and 1s of digital data CDs cost far less per byte of storage. CDs are portable - they can be easily moved from a computer to a CD player and back and forth. Hard disks, for the most part, stay put.

Answer 3

A hard disk is a type of hard drive; it is the type of hard drive that involves magnetic platters and spinning parts. There are other types of hard drives, namely Solid State Drives (SSDs). These use flash memory, and, true to their name, have no moving parts.

Answer 4

Yes and no. External discs were called floppy discs. But nowadays they are almost redundant.

CDs and DVDs are rigid so they can be considered hard discs

Answer 5

Hard Disk is the same as Hard Drive which is a storage device.

CD Drive is a device that reads cd/cd-r/cd-rw/dvd/dvd-r/dvd-rw.

Answer 6

A hard disk is inside a computer; it holds the operating system and saved files. A compact disc is optical media, such as an audio CD or data CD. CDs are identical in size and shape to a DVD.

Answer 7

yes