CruzerBlade USB 2.0 FlashDrive 16 GB

OverviewSanDisk is a brand of Western Digital for flash memory products, including memory cards and readers, USB flash drives, and solid-state drives. The company was acquired by Western Digital in 2016. As of March 2019, Western Digital is the fourth-largest manufacturer of flash memory having declined from third-largest in 2014. Sandisk was founded in 1988 by eli harari, sanjay mehrotra, and jack yuan, incorporated at the time as sundisk. Sandisk co-founder eli harari developed the floating gate eeprom which proved the practicality, reliability and endurance of semiconductor-based data storage. In 1991 sandisk produced the first flash based ssd in a 2.5-inch hard disk drive form factor for ibm with a 20 mb capacity priced at about $1,000. On may 10, 2000, the toshiba corporation of japan and the sandisk corporation said that they would form a new semiconductor company to produce advanced flash memory, primarily for digital cameras. Sandisk was acquired by hard disk drive manufacturer western digital on may 12, 2016 in a us$19 billion deal.