Record No.
MRB-2026-005847
First USB flash drive brought to market
Science & Technology
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Record Holder
Dov Moran
Israel
Category
Science & Technology
Country
Israel
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IL )
Achievement Date
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Record Description
Israeli engineer Dov Moran and his company M-Systems developed the DiskOnKey, launched in 2000 with IBM as the first commercially sold USB flash drive. It held just 8 megabytes of storage but helped replace the floppy disk within a few years and set the template for flash drives used today. Moran later sold M-Systems to SanDisk for roughly 1.6 billion dollars.
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