This article is trying to figure out why first we are using this expression to describe the portable storage device and why also it’s so popular.
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Despite the fact that there is 400 search each day on Google for Canada there is no content about usb key on the web. Your search result for usb key will always be related to USB flash drive.
USB Key and Flash drive equal objects but different meaning
Usb key is an other name to describe a usb flash drive. if you do a search on Google with the expression USB key the first result is USB Flash drive. The association between usb key and USB flash drive cannot be bypassed. Why choosing USB flash drive as an expression to describe the data storage device instead of choosing usb key or key usb ?
First of all the common word of the 2 expressions is USB which means Universal Serial Bus. USB is an industry standard created around 1995. This way communication between devices could be handled more easily. Secondly flash drive term is more closer to the physical reality itself than Key.
Flash drive describe instantly in the mind that the electronic device is like a drive but the word flash let us know that there is something different than a classical drive that you can find in computers. Flash drive illustrates that there is no physical drive with mechanism, Flash memory does not have latencies of hard drives. No latencies means more faster and more reliable.
USB Key means hoarding things ?
There is no proof or history of the term USB key on the internet. In fact the term usb key is a colloquialism. Key is a symbol to express the fact that it opens something and in this situation it opens electronic data such as text, photo, music. It certainly comes from the fact that as human being we have a tendency to hoard everything and the usb flash drive is like a place where we can store our memory, our secrets and so on… and by extension the flash drive became a key to illustrate that inside the object (the flash drive) there is something important that can be opened and shared or transferred.
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