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[Hamish+]

If you said memory stick you are wrong! USB Flash Drive is the official name.

Flash drives and memory sticks are completely different things!

http://www.geocities.com/shooeymooey/flash...memorystick.jpg

[TheFiresInTheSky]

interusting, i call them flash drives but ive never heard of anyone calling them memory sticks...

[rridgely]

Most people call them jump drives or flash drives. Memory sticks are an entirely different thing.

[Hamish+]

here in the UK I know loads of people that call them memory sticks, some of them even consider themselfs "good with computers"

[Eldmannen]

They are called many different names...

[Newhotness]

USB key is what I used to hear a lot

[TheFiresInTheSky]

eh i remember when i aws 7 i used to always call them USB's!

[Capman]

Hamish+, on May 30 2006, 10:35 AM, said:

here in the UK I know loads of people that call them memory sticks, some of them even consider themselfs "good with computers"

Regardless of what people call it, if you know what they mean then that is all that matters.
Besides it is the manfacturers that can't seem to make their minds up.

See here.

You will notice one on there is called a memory stick.

[Hamish+]

Yes there are about 30 nicknames for them, call it whatever you want, but USB Flash Drive is the official name.
'Memory Stick' is in fact a Sony Trademark, so no manufacturer will be able to give their product that name.

http://en.wikipedia....USB_flash_drive

[TheFiresInTheSky]

Bug - perhaps a reference to the size and appearance of some USB drives 
Chip stick 
Data key 
Data stick 
Disk on key 
Dongle - regarded by some as an inaccurate use of this word 
Finger drive 
Flash disk 
Flash drive 
Flash memory drive 
Geek stick - used by Geek Squad agents to refer to the special-use, branded USB flash drives with special diagnostic tools pre-loaded onto them. 
Gigachip 
Jump stick 
Key 
Keychain drive 
Keydrive 
Keyfob - widely used in the Seattle area 
Magic key 
Magic Stick - common in some Ohio towns 
 Memory drive 
Memory key 
Memory stick 
Micro hard drive 
Mobile drive 
Nerd bling 
Nerd necklace - used when worn around the neck 
Nerd stick - uncommon term 
Pen - used in much of Portugal 
Pen drive 
Pocket drive 
Stick 
Thumb drive 
Thumb key 
Travel stick 
USB drive 
USB key 
USB Pen 
USB Stick 
USB - sometimes used as a shorthand 
USB zip drive - sometimes used, not often  

EDIT: JUMP DRIVE for the noob!

[zaphirer]

Jump Drive?

[Newhotness]

NERD BLING...definitely gonna be how I refer to it from now on...anyone who's ever been to my school would understand, the entire math and computers faculty wears them around their neck like a gold chain...I think they even started giving them out during Frosh week to help the newbies get acclimated

[TheFiresInTheSky]

wow, pretty scarry...

[PS3]

i hardly ever say the official name. i just say flash drive and people would know what im talking about.