Private company
M-Systems
Logo: M-Systems, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3
Israeli electronics company
M-Systems Ltd., (sometimes spelled msystems) was a Nasdaq-listed Israeli producer of flash memory storage products founded in 1989 by Dov Moran and Aryeh Mergi, based in Kfar Saba, Israel. They were best known for developing and patenting the first flash drive, marketed in 1995 as DiskOnChip, and the first USB flash drive, marketed in 2000 as DiskOnKey. They also created the patented True Flash Filing System (TrueFFS) which presented the flash memory as a disk drive to the computer.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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M-Systems Ltd., (sometimes spelled msystems) was a Nasdaq-listed Israeli producer of flash memory storage products founded in 1989 by Dov Moran and Aryeh Mergi, based in Kfar Saba, Israel. They were best known for developing and patenting the first flash drive, marketed in 1995 as DiskOnChip, and the first USB flash drive, marketed in 2000 as DiskOnKey. They also created the patented True Flash Filing System (TrueFFS) which presented the flash memory as a disk drive to the computer. They also produced flash solid state drives for PATA, SATA, SCSI and SAS interfaces. After 17 years of business, they were acquired by their prior competitor, SanDisk, in 2006.2
Leadership
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Products and brands
- computer memory
Listed on Wikidata.1
Timeline
- 1989Founded Founded in Kfar Saba1
Links
- WikipediaM-Systems
- More imagesWikimedia Commons
- WikidataQ1228755
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- 1WikidataM-Systems on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaM-Systems on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsM-Systems logo by M-Systems, Public domain
- 4Wikimedia CommonsM-Systems photo by עמית, Public domain