disk or disc

[Glasia🌳]

I heard disc is CD or DVD and disk is HDD

 

[Schparks]

Disc is seen more often in the music industry and throwable objects such as Frisbees, whereas disk is the preferred spelling in computer-related lingo such as floppy disk.
(Taken from google)

 

[ppowersteef]

The difference is in regional spelling. (American vs Brittish)

Just like Armor and Armour mean the same thing

 

[IndigoGollum]

Disk is most computer discks and disc is any oðer disc. Þings like ðe maþematical definition of a disc and frisbees are discs while a floppy disk is a disk.

 

[Kubiquity^3 🌳]

The difference is in regional spelling. (American vs Brittish)

Just like Armor and Armour mean the same thing

However in America cds were called ”discs” back in the day. So I don’t believe there is any regionality going on with this. Disk was 3.5 and 5.25 inch diskettes or hdd disks.

 

[Sigma90]

Most common usage I've seen: Disk refers to a medium of storage. Disc refers to a shape. Hard disk drive (means of storage) / Compact disc (referring to the shape of a CD). I've also seen usage that disk is magnetic storage (floppy disk, hard disk, ZIP disk) and disc is for optical storage (CD, DVD, Bluray).

Strangely, you never hear of disk/disc being used for electronic means of storage like for USB flash drives or SSDs.