What makes a hard drive ‘hard’?

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Why would it be described like that? It’s not like SSDs or optical media are particularly soft.

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A hdd is a magnetic data storage medium. It’s called ‘hard’, among other reasons I believe, because you need a very strong (hard) magnetic field to achieve magnetize reversal or to demagnetize

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