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Good morning everyone, has anyone used Netac SSDs before. Not familiar with the brand but from reviews they seem quite impressive and well priced.
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I see on their website they claim to be the company that invented the USB flash-drive, so I assume that they know a thing or two about NAND memory. I installed a Netac 1TB SSD in a colleague's laptop after he dropped it and the mechanical HDD didn't survive. This probably was about two years ago and it's still working.
This is interesting, the USB flash drive was invented by an Israeli guy .....
From Wikipedia:
Multiple individuals have staked a claim to being the inventor of the USB flash drive. On April 5, 1999, Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan of M-Systems, an Israeli company, filed a patent application entitled "Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-Based PC Flash Disk".[10][1]The patent was subsequently granted on November 14, 2000 and these individuals have often been recognized as the inventors of the USB flash drive.[11] Also in 1999, Shimon Shmueli, an engineer at IBM, submitted an invention disclosure asserting that he had invented the USB flash drive.[1][12] A Singaporean company named Trek 2000 International is the first company known to have sold a USB flash drive, and has also maintained that it is the original inventor of the device.[13] Finally Pua Khein-Seng, a Malaysian engineer, has also been recognized by some as a possible inventor of the device.[14]
Given these competing claims to inventorship, patent disputes involving the USB flash drive have arisen over the years. Both Trek 2000 International and Netac Technology have accused others of infringing their patents on the USB flash drive.[15] [16][17] However, despite these lawsuits, the question of who was the first to invent the USB flash drive has not been definitively settled and multiple claims persist.
Multiple individuals have staked a claim to being the inventor of the USB flash drive. On April 5, 1999, Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan of M-Systems, an Israeli company, filed a patent application entitled "Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-Based PC Flash Disk".[10][1]The patent was subsequently granted on November 14, 2000 and these individuals have often been recognized as the inventors of the USB flash drive.[11] Also in 1999, Shimon Shmueli, an engineer at IBM, submitted an invention disclosure asserting that he had invented the USB flash drive.[1][12] A Singaporean company named Trek 2000 International is the first company known to have sold a USB flash drive, and has also maintained that it is the original inventor of the device.[13] Finally Pua Khein-Seng, a Malaysian engineer, has also been recognized by some as a possible inventor of the device.[14]
Given these competing claims to inventorship, patent disputes involving the USB flash drive have arisen over the years. Both Trek 2000 International and Netac Technology have accused others of infringing their patents on the USB flash drive.[15] [16][17] However, despite these lawsuits, the question of who was the first to invent the USB flash drive has not been definitively settled and multiple claims persist.
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Just a update on Netac. I've installed more than 150 drives since 2021 and had 1 x 2.5" drive failure.
I also installed 2 x 500Gb NVME drives in August 2022. Both failed two weeks ago within a few days of each other.
I also installed 2 x 500Gb NVME drives in August 2022. Both failed two weeks ago within a few days of each other.
I've bought two Netac drives for customers. Both have had my customers end up with slowly corrupting systems. I had to get a new drive and do a clean reinstall on one, and on the other, Dell's firmware gave warning and I was able to clone to a new drive successfully. It was showing as "pre-failure" in SMART, and I've returned it to Takealot. I will never, ever buy another Netac drive.