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USB _________ (fill in the blank) What you call flash drives/usb keys/pen drives/you know what i means

Poll: USB devices (86 member(s) have cast votes)

What do you call them?

(USB) Flash drive (44 votes [51.16%])
Percentage of vote: 51.16%
(USB) Pen drive (11 votes [12.79%])
Percentage of vote: 12.79%
USB-key (9 votes [10.47%])
Percentage of vote: 10.47%
(USB) flash key (2 votes [2.33%])
Percentage of vote: 2.33%
Something else (specify) (20 votes [23.26%])
Percentage of vote: 23.26%

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#21 3aces

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Posted 04 June 2007 - 08:53 AM

call it a usb pen!!!

#22 ripken204

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Posted 04 June 2007 - 09:57 AM

jaclaz, on Jun 4 2007, 07:18 AM, said:

Hmmm, "Usb flash drive" appears to be the most "correct" one,
but there are of course exceptions, I guess these:
Pen Drive
USB key
Thumb Drive
USB Stick
can be called differently with no risk of misunderstandings.
:lol:

jaclaz

well see to me a key opens things.. so i just dont understand usb key at all.
not quite sure where pen drive came from. does anyone have one that is connected to a pen?

ive heard lots of ppl use thumb drive tho

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#23 jaclaz

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Posted 04 June 2007 - 11:23 AM

@ripken204

If you click on the links on my original post, you might be able to understand the idea behind it.

jaclaz

#24 ripken204

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Posted 04 June 2007 - 02:25 PM

oh, well i guess that would makes sense.. but the funny thing about those car keys, if your cell phone goes off next to it, the key on the flash drive can get messed up and it wont start the car

#25 mau-yong

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Posted 04 June 2007 - 04:34 PM

Here, we call it USB Drive (short for USB Flash Drive).

#26 Idontwantspam

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Posted 04 June 2007 - 07:53 PM

jaclaz, on Jun 4 2007, 04:18 AM, said:

jaclaz

Welllllll.... I guess those are very literal interpretations of the names. Very good work finding those. :thumbup

mau-yong, on Jun 4 2007, 03:34 PM, said:

Here, we call it USB Drive (short for USB Flash Drive).

I've heard that before, but I still think USB drive isn't specific enough; as I stated earlier, there are many kinds of USB Drives. None the less, if someone just blurted out "where's my USB drive," I would think flash drive, not a hard drive with a USB connector or something like that.

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It appears that so far, (USB) Flash Drive has won.

#27 ripken204

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Posted 04 June 2007 - 08:30 PM

im with you Idontwantspam. a usb drive could be almost anything. you could even call a usb floppy drive a usb drive... completely different things tho.

#28 Idontwantspam

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Posted 04 June 2007 - 10:17 PM

ripken204, on Jun 4 2007, 07:30 PM, said:

.... a usb drive could be almost anything. you could even call a usb floppy drive a usb drive... completely different things tho.

#29 jaclaz

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Posted 05 June 2007 - 03:33 AM

Idontwantspam, on Jun 5 2007, 03:53 AM, said:

Welllllll.... I guess those are very literal interpretations of the names. Very good work finding those. :thumbup

Yep, the "Thumb Drive" really cracks me up.... I wish I had one of those.

jaclaz

#30 Doom1468

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Posted 05 June 2007 - 05:09 AM

I usually say "Flash Drive", but if I'm lazy, I just say "USB"...

#31 Martin L

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Posted 05 June 2007 - 07:48 AM

euwhm.... is just USB also good? most of the time people here in NL ask if i have my usb with me, and the other way around too ofcourse, and if they/i mean a usb whatever you can call it, yes they do

#32 DL.

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Posted 05 June 2007 - 08:36 AM

In English I call it “USB flash drive”. In Swedish it’s always just a direct translation of “USB memory”, which is what it’s called in computer magazines and among techies.

Many people here call it (in Swedish) “USB memory stick”, “memory stick”, “USB stick” or simply “the stick” (on the subject of portable data storage, “put it on the stick”). In rare cases it’s called “USB memory card”, because it’s put in the same category as other memory cards in online stores.