Is an SSD still a hard drive?

[Amberr]

So I was talking to some people on Discord and I said "I do not have a Hard Drive right now. I need to get one but need the money first." And they where like "WTF? How do you not have a hard drive?" And I said "All I have right now is an SSD." And then 2 people started saying that is still a hard drive. We did not get in a fight. But we had a conversation about it. And my thought is that a HDD is a Hard Disk Drive. There for hard drive. And an SSD is a Solid State Drive. Therefore not hard drive. Am I wrong in my thoughts?

 

[harrisjb78]

SSD is still a hard drive.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hard+drive+definition&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

[Math Geek]

different technology but same end result. we think of a hard drive as a device to hold our Os, programs and data. a HDD and an SSD both fit that def. different type of drive but amounts to the same thing in the end

 

[gdmaclew]

By that definition and any other I can find, an SSD is NOT a hard drive (or hard disk drive).

 

[greens]

SSD is still a hard drive.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hard+drive+definition&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

The definition clearly states disks. It is right in the definition, Hard DISKS.

No disk in an SSD. They are flash memory.

SSDs are not Hard, they are flash.

 

[captaincharisma]

think of both a HDD and SSD as storage devices

 

[mjslakeridge]

I think the term hard drive (or hard disk drive) evolved from the days where floppy disks were used to store your operating system, programs and your data.

Like this "beast" did. External hard drive was an expensive option.

I fired it up last year and it still worked!

 

[atljsf]

ssd can have partitions, store os, boot os, act as a hard disk

it is the same as a hard drive but uses different technology to achieve the information storage

 

[gdmaclew]

ssd can have partitions, store os, boot os, act as a hard disk

it is the same as a hard drive but uses different technology to achieve the information storage

So can a USB thumb drive but it is not a hard drive. Come to think of it, it is not a "drive" either.

 

[Corwin65]

Semantics.

It's like any copy machine can be called a Xerox.

It's not removable, and not soft, so we generally call it a hard drive.

 

[atljsf]

the usb thumbdrive uses a different port to connect to the pc, it is slower, cheaper and limmited in many ways

it is a drive but is more meant to be a storage device

not ideal to use for os, store and play games

that is the difference with the ssd and the hard disk

you can run a linux distro form a usb, but it will be slow and not ideal for a long time, since usb devices get damaged easily, also create data corruption easier than the ssd or the hard disk

it is a storage solution that tries to be a drive to do more but is not ideal

 

[harrisjb78]

Bad example, same result.

 

[atljsf]

it is a difference in concepts, what you understand as a storage device or a drive

no explanation or example will unify our concepts about the whole idea of store and execute programs from a device

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

An SSD is not a hard drive in my opinion, not if you want to be technically accurate.

A hard drive's full name is Hard Disk Drive or HDD - - it's got one or more magnetic hard disks or platters inside it - - an SSD does not have any hard disks inside it.