What's the difference between "Flash Drive" and "Flash Memory"?

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Published on 2011-11-30T11:19:01Z Indexed on 2011/11/30 18:01 UTC
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I have a problem with a Blu ray disk I bought.

I talked to a Sony technician who advised me to plug a "USB Flash Memory Stick" into the Blu-ray player. Is this something specific? Is there a difference between the following two?

"USB Flash Drive"
"USB Flash Memory"

When I go to Curry's or other sites that sell USB Sticks, they only talk about "USB Flash Drives".

I've been in computing for many years and know the basics, but "memory" and "drive" are different things to me.

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