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  • spinning rust, n. A computer hard disk, specifically one using magnetic storage, as opposed to a solid-state drive (SSD).

    erics, 16 March 2015:

    Apparently it wrote those 11gigs _after_ I moved 10 gigs of email archives to spinning rust this morning.

    March 18, 2015