“The terms hard drive and hard disk have been interchangeable for as long as I have been using computers.”
Yes and now that we have solid state drives most just use “Drive” because there is no disk. Unfortunately it becomes confusing when discussing logical drives or physical drives. I suppose we should differentiate and identify them correctly as different entities.
Ah, then I slightly mis-spoke and should have said “logical drive”, not “virtual drive”.
The only spinning discs I use these days are two 22TB drives for network storage and a bunch of backup drives in USB enclosures. All the rest were replaced with NVMEs and SSDs years ago.