Poll: What do you call the small USB device that you plug in to transfer files? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: What do you call the small USB device that you plug in to transfer files?

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Post by mixmastamyk » Fri, Jul 22, 2022, 5:38 PM UTC

SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #49

bool3max wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your phone is also a "USB mass storage device" when you plug it into your computer.

Usually it presents as an MTP device (and possibly also other types of device) these days. Phones haven't been USB mass storage devices for years, data corruption due to improper unmounting caused too many issues.

I never had that problem and want to go back.

Re: Poll: What do you call the small USB device that you plug in to transfer files?

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Post by esdaniel » Fri, Jul 22, 2022, 5:39 PM UTC

A f'ing security risk :-)

Re: Poll: What do you call the small USB device that you plug in to transfer files?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 22, 2022, 5:39 PM UTC

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Re: Poll: What do you call the small USB device that you plug in to transfer files?

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Post by mixmastamyk » Fri, Jul 22, 2022, 5:42 PM UTC

alexjplant wrote: post #34

When I still worked in government contracting in a physical office many of my coworkers referred to them as "zip drives". As a former avid user of Zip drives and disks it made me wince.

Zip is probably the best name we’re going to get in terms of concise meaning. Might as well reuse it, not like it will clash in the future.