OWC Blog – 7.24.24
The term “hard drive” has been baked-into today’s culture for so long that it has lots its meaning, instead referring to just about any storage drive. People say “hard drive”, whether it is an SSD, network, Cloud drive, or hard drive in use. Confusing the issue, Apple still names the internal volume on Macs “Macintosh HD“, which is erroneous—Apple has not sold a Mac with an actual hard drive for years.
Source: Everyone Needs an SSD. So Is There Really Still a Use for Dinosaur Spinning Hard Drives?