Cooler didn't arrive until after dinner. If I were twenty years younger I'd have stayed up all night. 😆
As I suspect a lot of people are doing, I'm going to keep using my existing graphics card until RTX 5000 series drops in January. Everything else is new, though. First build in seven years.
Why are you just repeating what I said? Of course the definition of hard disk drives (and thus hard drives) predats SSDs. That's why SSDs aren't referred to as hard drives. Hard disk drives are called that because their disks are hard.
Please show me your "original definition" because I don't come to the same conclusion.
"Hard drive" is just a quicker and easier way to say "hard disk drive". I honestly don't think I have ever heard someone actually say "hard disk drive" everyone shortens it to "hard drive". "Hard drive" = "hard disk drive" "Hard drive" != Any non soft storage media.
You could call SSDs, "solid drives" if you like, but they for sure aren't hard drives even if people often confuse the two.
Also I'm just curious, do you call CDs or vinyls hard disks? I mean they store data and they are technically hard disks (or discs, whichever spelling you prefer).
Merriam webster defines it in the same way and according to them that was how it was defined in 1982 when the word first came into use: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20drive#h1
The only definition I could find where hard drive means anything else is from the Cambridge dictionary "learners dictionary" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/learner-english/hard-drive
Their normal dictionary has the same definition as everybody else: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hard-drive