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My vote is just a cylinder. It’s been used for the hard drive activity light for decades already so shouldn’t be too much of a leap. Doesn’t look like any piece of technology.
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It actually does, just not modern technology. It's a simplified drum memory unit, the predecessor to the hard disk drive.
How is that a predecessor? It's just the same tech but bigger? (I know this could be said for pretty much anything but still.)
You'd have your answer if you spent half a minute reading on how the tech worked in the above-linked article.
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That's already the symbol of a data store, so if you hit it I'd expect it to bring up the connection configuration
What if we coupled the cylinder symbol with a 'going to' arrow ⤵️ above it?
I would assume that would mean either choosing between database profiles or uploading a database export
What’s a hard drive? Is that like iCloud or something?
It's an ancient device that replicates the cloud on your computer
I think it does look like an idealised stack of spinning magnetic disks. At least that's what I have always read it as.
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