Why would it be described like that? It’s not like SSDs or optical media are particularly soft.
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It’s probably because, back then when it was designed, you’d have hard disk drives (which disks were/are “hard”) and portable, smaller disks called “floppy disks” (which became obsolete with and replaced by USB drives).
Those eventually became smaller and had a plastic casings which were hard but, originally, they didn’t and those disks were, as the name suggests, floppy.
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