*is burning a live CD right now*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_storage

No.

There are things I have bought on DVD that I don't wish to (or can't) purchase again as a digital format so I still need my disc drive.

The convention is if it's magnetic it gets a k (floppy disk, zip disk, hard drive disk), if it's optical it gets a c (laser disc, compact disc, Blu-ray Disc).

So if you want to kick your k's, throw out your hard drives too and live only in the realm of SSDs

I thought one was American and the other was British English.

My laptop doesn't have an optical drive.

It's fine for the most part, but sometimes I need to make discs for clients and I have this huge USB3.0 12x blu-ray drive I need to lug around.

but as far as software and games go, yes, everything is digital download for me


also, obviously not having an optical drive allows the laptop to be much thinner than most other gaming laptops (only 1.05" thick)

If SSDs were larger and not so expensive, would it really be that bad?

I still use my DVD and Blu-ray drives a lot, mainly for anime and movies.


Nope. It's still Hard Disk and Compact Disc (for example) no matter what form of English you speak.

Yes, SSDs have no effective method of being the recipient of a DOD wipe.

Cool, I learn something new everyday.

I have a chip implanted in my brain so all I have to do is activate a movie using my voice and I can stream movies through my brain. It's pretty useful. But I still use my disk drive whenever I can.

Buying games from retailers who don't have a physical store is most of the time always a lot cheaper. They do send you physical copies via mail but it's cheaper than game downloads.

My games come from Steam, and the odd movie I watch is off of iTunes. The only hard copy of anything I own is Oblivion, and I haven't played that in months.

I don't buy too many PC games these days, so while I dislike digital distribution in general, I svck it up and just grab the few games I do want during Steam sales. I still have a bunch of older games on CDs and DVDs though. For everything else, like installing operating systems and such, I've switched to USB drives.

I plan on picking up a spiffy http://www.anandtech.com/show/4395/meet-the-new-525-optical-drive-standard-slimmer-slotloading once they're readily available. Why it took 'em this long to make it the standard I don't know, they look so much better.

I thought the convention was just where it was developed: Americans spell it with a "k", elsewhere it's spelt with a "c": so with IBM being heavily involved with magnetic media it's "disk" and Philips' involvement with optical media meant "disc" became the nomenclature there. That said, I guess it's the way that "program" became the de-facto spelling for computer instructions to differentiate it from "programme" (at least outside the US) which is used for itineraries and stuff shown on the telly. But I still spell both with a "c" since I'm not American and think "disk" looks a bit odd.

Anyway, I still use my DVD contraption often: don't like online authentication, so although I'm losing my CDs and DVDs constantly, I still prefer disc checks; then there's music CDs, videos and a bunch of other stuff that keep it in steady work.

Yeah, disk for magnetic and disc for optical is not de-jure, but it is de-facto. The end result is the same, though, k for magnetic and c for optical and adopted by pretty much the entire industry.