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What do you call USB flash drives?

Originally posted by: rudder
I call it "that little damn thingy with all the pr0n on it so my wife can't find it" stick.
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I hope you don't call it that when asking your wife where it is.
 
All of the ones you list are OK except for "USB Key" - that's something similar but definitely different.

 
Originally posted by: DougK62
All of the ones you list are OK except for "USB Key" - that's something similar but definitely different.
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Except, of course, the advertisements and manufacturers who advertise them as USB Keys.

They're "USB Flash Drives", to me. I've concluded that it's the only relatively unambiguous way to refer to them.
 
i call it whichever comes to mind first (jump, usb, flash). But I mainly call it a flash drive because it makes more sense then Jump Drive and USB drive could be anything.
 
USB drive works for 99% of people. So that is what I call it. Sure it is ambiguous for the 1% of us who know more about computers. But that 1% is also smart enough to know what I'm talking about. So it always works.

You can't say that about any of the other terms. There will always be a signficiant amount of people confused that it isn't worth using those other terms.
 
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