The word 'disk' is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used as a noun meaning a thin, flat, round object, usually made of metal, plastic, or stone, which can store or carry information. Example: I plugged the USB disk into my laptop and transferred the files to my hard drive.
For me, though, it offers the possibility of immortality of the best kind - easy, cheap, and my great-great-grandchildren might be able to load me from disk to play alongside them in Resident Evil 73.
I can save some of those programs to a hard disk or a dedicated external device for later viewing at home.
The company said 2012 revenues were expected to be flat on the 2011 figures, with no impact in the second half from a serious disruption in the supply of hard disk drives after floods in Thailand.
One idea is that relatively soon it might be possible to "back up" your mind - to save your personality to disk.
The expressions on the faces of Opposition backbenchers, during the Chancellor's statements on the near collapse of Northern Rock and the loss of the computer disk, made clear that the Tory party's came a bad second to their hope that the public's anxieties would last long enough to do the government fatal damage.
Somebody ought to have reminded them that the bank failed because of greedy and incompetent free marketeers and that the disk was lost by the haulage company which made its name breaking through the Wapping picket line.
A recent refresh makes it look less like an amateur pursuit and more like a professional undertaking: Apple removed hard-disk storage, shrunk the device from trivet to hockey-puck size, and dropped the price to $100.
Fujitsu, for example, is shrinking its computer hard-disk-drive business, transferring a chip plant to a joint venture with Advanced Micro Devices, an American firm, and considering spinning off several other businesses, such as printers and flat-panel displays.
Some of the resulting shortcuts--replacing an "expensive" wedge of lemon with a little more cheap rice, for instance--are hard to notice, but they do not augur well.Who ate the fish?This squeeze will seem familiar to every small supplier, from disk-drive makers to cheque-book printers.
As it is, upgrading Windows installations can be a tedious, disk-shuffling affair, not for the faint of heart.
It uses a quantum-mechanical effect called giant magnetoresistance (GMR), which is also the basis of modern hard-disk drives.
