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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].
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).
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] The company changed its name back to Sandisk Corporation (now with the lowercase "D"), as the result of the planned spin-off from Western Digital, that will occur ...
Kingston began manufacturing removable disk drive storage products in 1989 in their Kingston Storage Products Division. By 2000, it was decided to spin off the product line and become a sister company, StorCase Technology, Inc. [9] StorCase ceased operations in 2006 after selling the designs and rights to manufacture its products to competitor CRU-DataPort.
Monday marks the fourth anniversary of the violent events of Jan. 6, 2021 -- a day President-elect Donald Trump has continually tried to recast as a "day of love." Trump is vowing to pardon Jan. 6 ...
The US Justice Department has entered a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s Fulton County over jail conditions that federal investigators have described as inhumane, violent and unsanitary.
Andrés Giménez is on the move. The Toronto Blue Jays struck a deal to trade for Cleveland Guardians second baseman Giménez on Tuesday, the teams announced.The Blue Jays also received pitcher ...
The first 8 MB cache drive was the 100 GB WD1000JB, followed by other models starting with 40 GB capacity. Western Digital advertised the JB models for cost-effective file servers. In October 2001, Western Digital restated its prior year results to reflect the adoption of SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No.101 and the reclassification of Connex ...