It’s hard as opposed to floppy, the disk refers to the spinning storage medium, and the drive refers to the device which reads and writes to and from the spinning disk. The full term is hard disk drive, and refers specifically to electro-mechanical storage devices which consist of spinning platters inside a housing. I’m afraid that’s incorrect in current English technical usage, according to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Collins Dictionary, Wikipedia, and all the style guides that I have ever written for. I believe “having tea” in UK can be done without tasting tea… OK, it’s not a perfect language (unlike Maths), but a natural one. Same way, default “hard disk” is still baptized as “Macintosh HD”, keeping consistence in a “mac specific dialect”. I embrace Apple’s convention, and I suspect it’s the result of a very meditated question. Trying to identify if disk is solid or mechanical is not important at this stance, and changing to a more “realistic” description is futile and messy. I can’t find a simpler way to name these two kinds of storage, keeping a standard nomenclature across different macs. I’m not sure how an internal data drive (no bootable) is named, but it should be “external disk”, following the intention. And it’s not a bad idea to use different icons, which are not figurative pictures in this case (external disks includes sd cards also…). Any other naming could be more confusing… No good idea to use “internal disk”, as boot drive could be external (but “internal” for system). It is the most understandable nomenclature to designate “OS drive” vs. I’d love to know of its first recorded sighting, so we can start having an annual Finder Column Width Bug Day, to celebrate each year that it continues to infuriate users and waste their time.Ībout entertaining “Hard Drive” question: apart that English is used by default in many countries (not just UK & USA) requiring just description without literature, this is a practical and solomonic linguistic decission. It first appeared in OS X Mavericks in 2013, if not before that. One last Finder bug in 10.15.3, which is possibly the longest-standing in the front end of macOS, is the column width bug, which I detailed here nearly five years ago. Perhaps it’s awaiting my hard disk to become available? Maybe I’m doing something wrong here, but given the space that some of these metadata can occupy, it would be nice if this feature were to work. Others only apply as long as the Preview Options window is open. The only one of the options offered in that window which does seem to work is the item at its foot, Show Quick Actions. The moment that you dismiss the Preview Options window, though, Finder reverts to what it feels I want to see, in this case adding several items from the General section. In this case, PDFs are set up to show just the basic file information in the preview, as shown in the example in this Finder window. Use the Show Preview Options command to display controls over which items are listed below the QuickLook thumbnail. Select a document of the type whose Finder preview you want to customise, such as a JPEG image. Less entertaining and more irritating is the complete failure of Finder’s Show Preview Options in its View menu – a useful feature which simply doesn’t work on either of my Macs here, again running 10.15.3. We all know that HD stands for Hard Disk (or Drive), but just carry on in case something deep in the bowels of macOS can’t live without the ancient name. I find it quaint enough that Catalina’s new boot Volume Group still defaults to referring to its two sibling volumes as Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD - Data. And yes, this is Catalina 10.15.3, not Leopard 10.5. Try this on your own Mac if you don’t believe me. They’re SSD all the way through, yet open Finder’s Preferences, and in the General and Sidebar sections, the internal SSD or, as Apple prefers to call it elsewhere Flash Drive, is there referred to as a Hard disk. Neither my iMac Pro nor my MacBook Pro 16-inch have any option to come with an internal hard disk, or even a Fusion Drive for that matter. It’s a question almost good enough for one of Saturday’s Mac riddles: where does every Mac tell its user that it’s still got a “hard disk”?
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