Storage forum: Flash drive or memory stick?

if you want to plug into a USB port. Memory sticks are generally for such as digital cameras and come in a variety of pin insertion types. These are such as CF (compact flash) If your digital frame has a USB port too, the flash drive can transfer images from your PC and you plug that into the port on the frame. I've seen the terms used interchangeably but they really don't refer to the same thing. The word "Memory Stick" is actually a Sony term. "Flash card" is the term used for others such as digital cameras use. Hope that helps. I know it can be confusing.

I had to look up some digital frames at Newegg. I don't have one myself and didn't know what type of memory you'd need. Most seem to take the types found in cameras such as secure digital and other types. Some will do USB but no all. So now you get to make a decision. If you have a digital camera, you probably download the pictures from that via USB cable to your PC. But, the camera has a flash card that may fit directly into many digital frames. What you'd want to consider is a USB flash card reader. These allow you to plug the flash card into the reader and the reader into a USB port on your PC so you can transfer them directly. Hope that doesn't add more to the confusion. Good luck.

This is one time the computer industry does itself no credit. Memory stick is misused. all USB "sticks" are really Flash drives. They store data fr4om any give source. The data is permanently available until deleted.
A memory stick, so called, is to hold data in memory as long as there is electricity to hold it. The RAM card and the CMOS are the most common forms of memory holder. The CMOS (a file in a chip) has its own battery, and, the RAM works only while the PC is powered on.
The use of memory stick is very misleading - think Flash Drive

Norm

OK, thanks, I think I've got it. Maybe. I did look at digital picture frames and they have 2 types, one of them uses a "flash drive" which as you said to think "flash drive" must be what I want. So I'll get a flash drive. I think! No, I really believe I've got it!

Thanks a lot--Pups