Western Digital iXpand - USB 3.1 USB Type A 256 GB

SanDisk 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 Dollar 19 billion deal. / Free up space on your iPhone or iPad quickly and easily with the iXpand Mini Flash Drive1. Plug in the Lightning connector and you can easily move photos, videos and other files off your device and onto the drive. From there, you can transfer the files onto a PC or Mac computer or store them on the drive. You can also save directly to the drive when using the app to take photos and videos.