Is there a standardized name for the USB keychain harddrive?

[geno]

Originally posted by: FlyLice
Thumb drive or Flash drive.

Those two are definietely the predominant nicknames

 

[aircooled]

yep. I call them USB Thumb Drives.

 

[EngenZerO]

i go between the following

usb thumbdrive (non computer people)

and

memstick (pc literate friends)

 

[Monkey muppet]

A call him "sticky"

 

[Cristatus]

i just call it a "memory thingy"

 

[Mr N8]

Flash Drive

 

[Soccer55]

Originally posted by: torpid
Jumpdrive seems the most popular here, even though people don't have an actual jumpdrive. I think memory stick is used, but it can be misleading because I think there really is something called a memory stick and it's not a USB drive. I've seem thumbdrive on AT a lot.

I believe you're thinking about this

-Tom

 

[Crucial]

why would you call it a pen drive? does it also write on paper?

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

"Porn on a stick"
"Stick o' Porn"

 

[Confused]

USB memory stick

 

[bleuiko]

Now what IF... what IF it's bigger than your thumb and it can't jump???

This ruins the whole system!!!

$#&*#@

 

[dderidex]

This needs more pole!

Originally posted by: isasir
Topic Title: Is there a standardized name for the USB keychain harddrive?
Topic Summary: Thumbdrive? USB Keychain? Jumpdrive? Memorystick in your pants?

Well, I *used* to call it 'USB Thumbdrive', but I am SO calling it 'memorystick in my pants' from now on! ROFLMAO!

 

[Viperoni]

pen drive, only because it's quick to say, and can't be confused with anything else that's out there, AFAIK.

Memory stick and flash drive are horrible names to use

 

[shilala]

when I bought mine they were called Flash Drives or Thumb Drives.

 

[ChinamanatNCSU]

Originally posted by: MogulMonster
Flash Drive

 

[ribbon13]

I'm sure once game consoles use standard USB2 peripherials everyone will just call them "memory cards"

 

[Goosemaster]

"Nerd Purse"

 

[Kasper4christ]

just use w/e name you happen to think of first

 

[Phoenix86]

It uses the USB port and stores the data on flash memory. The "correct" term would be USB flash drive, or flash drive.

 

[ribbon13]

"Nerd Purse"


hahahahaha. Nice!

 

[Doggiedog]

My PANT drive is called Anaconda in these parts.

 

[isasir]

Poel added.

 

[m4ch0dude]

Originally posted by: isasir
Poel added.

You forgot to add what it's actually called : a usb drive

 

[Toki]

i hear thumb drive most often, but i call it a usb drive.

 

[isasir]

Originally posted by: m4ch0dude

Originally posted by: isasir
Poel added.

You forgot to add what it's actually called : a usb drive

Added.

Nerd purse added as well...