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Subject:Re: "USB compatible data storage device " From:Suzette Leeming <suzette -dot- leeming -at- gmail -dot- com> To:laura_johnson -at- agilent -dot- com Date:Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:01:08 -0400
I usually refer to these as USB jump drives, but I'm not sure why....
Suzette Leeming
Stouffville, Ontario
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:12 PM, <laura_johnson -at- agilent -dot- com> wrote:
> In re: Lee's post suggesting UMS and/or MTP -- In most cases, users
> shouldn't need to care which protocol is being used over the USB
> connection, and that's what those terms relate to. I like, and use, "USB
> drive"; if there are technical restrictions on either the type of drive or
> the protocol, those will need to be described somewhere in the
> documentation, but needn't be embedded in the phrase that's going to be
> scattered all over the doc.
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