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What would be a good replacement? A little cloud perhaps? :-) Or somebody engraving something on a stone tablet (timeless)?

I use an arrow pointing down to a 2D HD icon. Perhaps not the best imagery, but I guess I feel like I can afford to buck tradition.

In a way, that's only postponing the same result as the floppy disk icon.

All too true.

And how many non-geeky users know what a hard drive looks like?