Secondly, this product was developed by Netac in China and applied for a patent called USB flash drive. Later, other manufacturers used homophonic USB flash drives to avoid copyright issues.
Development history: Tracing back to the development history of flash drives, the earliest listing of flash drives should be in 2000. At that time, five companies in the world owned their own brands of flash drives, mainly M-System in Israel, Track in Singapore, U disk in Netac, Luven Easy Disk and FlashDriver in Korea. However, the products launched by these five companies are different. The first-generation flash drives of M-System, track, U disk and Flashdriver can only be used under various operating systems, and the true "mobile storage" characteristics of flash drives are not realized. Moreover, at that time, the prices of USB flash drives introduced by these manufacturers were very high, and the 16M products of Netac USB flash drives were sold to around 1000. YiDisk, the first generation flash drive introduced by Lu Wen, has the function of "no drive". No drive means that users can access Windows 98/SE operating system and other win? Under dows2000, windowsxp and other operating systems, there is no need to drive, and the easy disk can be plugged and played, allowing users to truly realize mobile storage.
With the introduction of driveless USB flash drive, other brands followed closely, and Netac's second-generation USB flash drive also introduced driveless function. With the improvement of consumers' awareness of flash drives, consumers' demand for flash drive functions is also increasing. At the beginning of 2002, Luwen Company launched a "three-in-one" easy disk with three functions of "no drive, startup and hard encryption". This three-in-one floppy disk means that the floppy disk not only has the function of no drive, but also has the function of starting the system. The floppy disk can be used as a system startup disk to start the system, so the floppy disk is meaningless. It is worth mentioning that the "hard encryption" function makes the easy disk private. Users must enter the correct password before using Easy Disk to prevent users' private information from being stolen by others. Easy disk not only has storage function, but also has more personalized functions.
The era of flash memory has arrived. With the rapid expansion of the market demand for flash memory and the eagerness to carve up the market share, new products and technologies emerge one after another. In July this year, Luwen Storage launched a "nine-in-one" easy disk that integrates nine functions: no drive, startup, hard encryption, write protection, personal mail, PC lock, compressed storage, confidential disk and double antivirus. The history of USB flash drive in China is only two years, and the course she has gone through is a road to tap and lead users' needs. The original intention of the original R&D personnel was to provide users with a tool that can store more capacity, which led to the emergence of flash drives. Nowadays, the functions of USB flash drives are more and more abundant, and the price is close to that of individual users. In the future, USB flash drives will be personalized. Although many people are not familiar with USB flash drives, there is reason to believe that as long as they meet the needs of users, the future of USB flash drives will be better.