• Hjalmar@feddit.nu
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    2 days ago

    I’m confused. Those all look equally hard to me

    (Also, I was born in 2009)

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      The big ones are not rigid, they flop around. The smaller ones (the save icon ones) have a rigid plastic case that does not flop. Inside both kinds is a floppy disk though, hence them both having that name. “Hard disks” have metal platters that decidedly do not flop, in or out of their case.

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      The left two are bendable like a fedex envelope, the one on the right is hard plastic

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      It might help to take a closer look at the height of each disk casing to guess why two are called floppy and one hard.