Given the impermanence of any storage medium today, I'm thinking a puff of smoke would convey the sentiment with the right level of user expectation.
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An arrow pointing up at a line. Preferably with each being a different colour.
The arrow indicates movement. The line is abstract. But with the colour coding it carries the idea of 'putting the thing into the other thing'.
The rest is learned pattern recognition. A download is a down arrow in a circle because you are taking the thing from the other thing. So saving is an arrow to a line because you are putting the thing in the other thing.
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Down arrow pointing to a line, box, folder, or similar. Icons like that are what I've seen most commonly in software that has an icon for saving over the last few years.
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I choose a labeled, icon-free button that says save
A dark souls campfire/site of grace
Ice cube, because you're freezing it in whatever working state you're in.
Gotta go with an even older symbol, the ring buoy.
I'd like to think it won't even be necessary with a save icon as autosave becomes more prevalent. If I'm wrong, one option the icon could be is something like a "snapshot"
probably a safe.
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A rotary pay phone powered by a steam engine.
A tombstone.
Because you think that you have it fixed now to a certain place.
And you think it has got a name plate in front of it.
But you don't want to think about all the dark details of what's really happening down below!