Difference b/w "memory stick," "flash drive" and "external hard drive"?
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Flash Drives are USB connectable storage devices that only need to be plugged into a USB port to be used. Memory Sticks are little cards that you need to use readers to use. Both use flash memory chips as their storage medium.
external hard drives are the same as the hard drive inside your computer, it only has a separate power supply. It is usually more expensive and holds a lot more than a flash drive.
You can transfer those files using any of these. Flash drives are cheaper and have enough storage to transfer any of these files.
Unless you are looking to transfer many gigabytes of data, a flash drive will be fine.
All three can take the files you want to.
Memory stick is Sony, I think, so its essentially a flash drive.
And an external hard drive is much bigger, like 40-60Gb
Memory stick - Usually refers to sony memory stick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/memory_stic...
Flash Drive - Any USB drive for storing data usually no more then 4GB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/usb_flash_d...
External Hard Drive - Some time of large storage device, usually not portable
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/external_ha...
You can transfer files to all three, although the most common would be the Flash Drive
all of then can save any files.
the differences are:
memory stick needs a memory card reader to read it. it is smaller than flash drive and many types, example: sd card, xd card, cf card etc.
flash drive can be plugged into a usb port without needing of a reader. it is usually 128mb to 8gb. (64mb got, but very rare)
external hard drive can use usb, sata or firewire interface. you need the relevant port to use each. it is usually 20gb up to 500 gb. it is often used as backup.
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