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I think you misunderstood what I was saying about SSDs. SSDs are not considered "Hard Drives" any more, colloquially a hard drive now specifically means platter disks, and therefore SSDs are not hard drives. I very much disagree with it, but that's how language evolved. To me, they are hard drives, because they're still hard storage media, but the general consensus is that all hard drives have disk platters.
I'm not trying to prove that it was a bad name for 3 1/4" floppies, just that the name came from the casing, not the disk medium, and carried forward colloquially because they weren't very different from their floppy predecessors