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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zCexVe" data-source="post: 215783" data-attributes="member: 3878">Here is about first flash drive in 1998...The flash drive was first invented in 1998 by Dov Moran, President and CEO of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M-Systems&action=edit" target="_blank">M-Systems</a> Flash Pioneers (Israel). Dan Harkabi, who is now a Vice President at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SanDisk" target="_blank">SanDisk</a>, led the development and marketing team at M-Systems. His most significant contribution was his insistence that the product be self-reliant and free of the need to install drivers. Nearly simultaneous development of similar products was undertaken at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Netac&action=edit" target="_blank">Netac</a> and at Trek 2000, Ltd. All three companies have similar and disputed patents. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM" target="_blank">IBM</a> was the first North American seller of a USB flash drive, and marketed an 8 MB version of the product in 2001 under the "Memory Key" moniker. IBM later introduced a 16 MB version manufactured by Trek 2000, and returned to M-Systems for the 64 MB version in 2003. Lexar can also lay claim to a pioneering USB flash drive product. In 2000 they introduced a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Flash" target="_blank">Compact Flash</a> (CF) card having an internal USB function. Lexar offered a companion card reader and USB cable that eliminated the need for a USB hub. The first flash drives were made by M-Systems and distributed in Europe under the "disgo" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_drive#_note-disgo" target="_blank">[1]</a> brand in sizes of 8 MB, 16 MB, 32 MB, and 64 MB. These were marketed as "a true floppy-killer", and this design was continued up to 256 MB. Asian manufacturers soon started making their own flash drives that were cheaper than the disgo series. Modern flash drives have <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_2.0" target="_blank">USB 2.0</a> connectivity. However, they do not currently use the full 480 Mbit/s the specification supports due to technical limitations inherent in NAND flash. The fastest drives available now use a dual channel controller, though still fall considerably short of the transfer rate possible from a current generation hard disk, or the maximum high speed USB 2.0 throughput. Typical overall file transfer speeds are about 3 MBytes/s. The highest current overall file transfer speeds are about 10-25 MByte/s. Older, "full speed" 12 Mbit/s devices are limited to a maximum of about 1 MByte/s. Flash drives have become iconic as a sort of "fashion statement" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_drive#_note-fashion" target="_blank">[2]</a>, much like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod" target="_blank">iPod</a>'s white ear bud headphones.[we refer it as 'IT sura']</blockquote>

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