Memory sticks
May 22, 2019 10:42:25 #
nadelewitz
Loc: Ithaca NY
Pablo8 wrote:
The finger-nail-size items are called 'Cards', in my book, and on the manufactures packaging / advertising. What I see advertised these days, as 'Memory Sticks', are USB connections, about the size of my thumb. I use them for storing / transferring data from laptop to PC. No way would a Memory Stick fit/attach to any of my cameras. That is where the 'Card' is used. To me, Cards and Sticks are two different things, in both looks and purpose.
I don't know where you see any USB flash drives referred to as "cards". "Cards" are flat memory media that slide into a device....SD cards, CF cards, the latest cards in cameras, the defunct Olympus cards and Sony Memory Sticks, etc.
Memory DIMM modules in computers are also called "sticks" by many. Seems like anything long and narrow gets called a "stick". What things get called seems to depend more on their shape than on how/where they get connected.
If everyone could call everything by the same name there'd be less confusion, wouldn't there?
May 22, 2019 14:32:04 #
Pablo8 wrote:
Some posters are mentioning 'Sticks' while others are talking about 'Cards'. Are they one and the same thing?. To me a memory 'stick' has a USB connection, and about as long as my little finger. A 'card' is flat like a postage stamp. Are people mixing /confusing the two different things? I think so. I refer to 'Sticks' or 'Cards', as described on the packaging by the manufacturer.
I call the USB devices "Thumb Drives." They're not drives, and the newer ones are much smaller than your thumb. Do I care?
May 22, 2019 14:37:29 #
nadelewitz
Loc: Ithaca NY
aellman wrote:
I call the USB devices "Thumb Drives." They're not drives, and the newer ones are much smaller than your thumb. Do I care?
Exactly the point. They get called "thumb drives" because they're the size of a thumb. Pretty silly, isn't it?
"Drives" seems to be used for any storage media that's not a "card". Hard drive, Solid-State Drive, thumb drive.
Usually one can tell what someone is talking about. Not always, though.
May 22, 2019 17:32:57 #
nadelewitz wrote:
Exactly the point. They get called "thumb drives" because they're the size of a thumb. Pretty silly, isn't it?
"Drives" seems to be used for any storage media that's not a "card". Hard drive, Solid-State Drive, thumb drive.
Usually one can tell what someone is talking about. Not always, though.
"Drives" seems to be used for any storage media that's not a "card". Hard drive, Solid-State Drive, thumb drive.
Usually one can tell what someone is talking about. Not always, though.
Well said. Of course solid state drives are not really "drives"
either. They don't drive anywhere. They just sit there, happy
to be free of burden of moving parts. LOL
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