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Neither - they are a Solid State Drive (SSD). They use silicon chips to store the data - in general similar to RAM except they are Nonvolatile - they retain data without any power applied whereas RAM is Volatile and losses all it's data when power is removed.

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Q: Is pen drive magnetic media or optical media?
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