On 5/31/2013 8:19 PM, Keith Keller wrote:

On 2013-06-01, Stan Hoeppner [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Today "HDD" can mean either mechanical hard disk drive or SSD. To easily
differentiate, it has become commonplace to refer to mechanical hard
drives simply as "rust" because it's quicker to type and universally
understood.  If this is the first time you're seeing this term that's a
bit surprising.

I think this is the only list I've ever seen "rust" used in this way.

Then I'd guess you're not subbed to other storage specific lists, such
as linux-scsi, linux-ide, xfs, etc.  Obviously not everyone uses this
jargon, but it's becoming much more common.  I've been using it myself
for quite some time.  Some people use "SRD" as well meaning "spinning
rusty disk".  You'll commonly see "array of rust", "rusty RAID6", "SRD
array", etc.  "rust" is here to stay.  Get used to it.

-- 
Stan