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Do Solid State Hard Drives have HP-41C/TI-59 Roots?
07-24-2017, 10:29 PM
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RE: Do Solid State Hard Drives have HP-41C/TI-59 Roots?
The earliest flash drives were developed by an Israeli company called M-Systems. They introduced the first flash memory DIP in 1995, the first USB flash drive in 2000, the first SCSI and IDE SSDs around 2002, and the first SATA SSDs around 2005. Their PC drives were marketed as a Fast Flash Disk (FFD), and introduced many standard features of modern SSDs, including wear-leveling and bad block mapping techniques. M-Systems FFDs were rugged and expensive, and were primarily used by the U.S. military and other customers with hostile operating environments and limitless budgets. M-Systems collaborated with Samsung to develop their FFD products using Samsung-manufactured NAND flash and M-Systems controllers, and they were later acquired by SanDisk. Both SanDisk and Samsung SSDs are directly descended from M-Systems products.

Here's a photo of a first-generation M-Systems 16GB SATA FFD, originally installed in the command interface smart display (Pentium-M / Win XP hardware) of a General Dynamics Land Systems vehicle circa 2008.

[Image: msystems_sata16.jpg]
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