M-Systems

The DoC came in 1995 as the first commercially relevant flash SSD in the world on the market. The soundless storage medium no rotating mechanical parts and is therefore vibration- and temperature- sensitive than, for example, at the same time on the market relevant Microdrives. Housed in the memory is a 32-pin DIP package. Various embodiments of the DOCs have a capacity between 2 MB and 4 GB.

The DoC has been in industrial embedded systems, military deployment devices, internet boxes, set- top boxes, network routers and used as non-volatile memory in the palmOne PDAs since October 2004 ( see NVFS ).

Internally, the DoC - module contained a controller for error correction method, considered defective data blocks and had features that enabled the implementation of a special file system ( TrueFFS ), for which the company introduced its own software.

Some time after SanDisk acquired M-Systems, the end of the product line in 2007 was announced.