"disc" vs. "disk".

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For me, they're different things. On an old fashioned computer, discs and disks go in different parts of the computer. Computers eventually no longer used disks, and plenty of modern computers don't even use discs anymore.

For me it's the same thing, only a different way of writing it.

This is a disc:

https://pixabay.com/en/dvd-cd-rom-compa ... al-152917/

This is a disk:

http://windowsreport.com/windows-10-floppy-disk/

That's correct, but it's only my point of view, because english isn't my mother nor first language. Disk is the american way of writing word disc used to be wrote originally in the british manner. It's identical for british word Defence vs american Defense, saviour vs savior, colour vs color and so on.

I always spell Disk but I'm dyslexic

There is nothing much about dyslexia in this case, because it is only a dialect word, like they may write og say something differently in to different places, while using the same language. I think that american spelling is better, because it's more standarized and logical, like they replace letter "C" with "K" or "S", because letter C has unfortunately 2 ways of spelling, and there is also a lot of word expections. English should be standarized, due to it has milions of silent letters, that doesn't make sense anymore and should be said as it is written, replacing word "face" with "feis" and writing it complementaly phonetically.

I spell it disc because I associate the word with CDs.

It will always be "disk" for me.

For me "disc" is a CD/DVD and "disk" is a hard drive.