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It is known for its flash memory products, including memory cards and readers, USB flash drives, solid-state drives, and digital audio players. The company was founded in 1988 as SunDisk Corporation and renamed in 1995 as SanDisk Corporation; [ 2 ] then renamed to SanDisk LLC in 2016 when it was acquired by Western Digital . [ 3 ]
A flash drive (also thumb drive, memory stick, and pen drive/pendrive) [1] [note 1] is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface. A typical USB drive is removable, rewritable, and smaller than an optical disc , and usually weighs less than 30 g (1 oz).
Thermaltake "Water2.0 Series" XPG "Lavente series" (Xtreme Performance Gear, a gaming brand of ADATA) Zalman "SKADI series" "Reserator 3 Max" "LQ series" "Reserator 3 Max Dual" Zotac (stopped producing water coolers)
The USB Flash Drive Alliance, founded in December 2003 by Samsung, Lexar Media, Kingston Technology and others, is a group of companies promoting the use of USB flash drives (also called "keydrives" and a variety of other names). [1] In 2003, according to the alliance, 50 million USB flash drives were sold in the US alone [citation needed].
M-systems was competing in the flash market with SanDisk, but the introduction of the USB drive made a cooperative environment more financially advantageous. In 2004, the two companies entered into a strategic agreement with cross licensing of patents to develop new USB drive platforms introduced in 2005. [4]
For example, the first commercial hard drive, IBM's RAMAC in 1957, supplied 3.75 MB for $34,500, or $9,200 per megabyte. In 1989, a 40 MB hard drive cost $1200, or $30/MB. And in 2018, 4 Tb drives sold for $75, or 1.9¢/GB, an improvement of 1.5 million since 1989 and 520 million since the RAMAC.
Version 1.0 of OCuLink, released in Oct 2015, supports up to 4 PCIe 3.0 lanes (3.9 GB/s) over copper cabling; a fiber optic version may appear in the future. The most recent version of OCuLink, OCuLink-2, supports up to 16 GB/s (PCIe 4.0 x8) [ 51 ] while the maximum bandwidth of a USB 4 cable is 10GB/s.
2.0 + 1.1 Parallel ATA 1 RAID NIC Package TDP Features / Notes AMD 480/570/580/690 CrossFire Chipset SB600: 2006 130 4 × 3 Gbit/s AHCI 1.1 SATA Revision 2.0: 10 + 0 1 × ATA/133 0,1,10 No 548-pin FC-BGA: 4.0 AMD 700 chipset series: SB700: Q1 2008 6 × 3 Gbit/s AHCI 1.1 SATA Revision 2.0: 12 + 2 1 × ATA/133 No 4.5 DASH 1.0 SB700S: DASH 1.0 ...