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Seagate Ships One Billion Hard Drives


Tue 2008-04-22 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan
Seagate has just announced that they are the first manufacturer to ship 1 billion hard drives, and they expect to ship another billion within 5 years.

Here’s what they had to say:

“Seagate Technology announced today that it is the first hard drive manufacturer worldwide to have shipped 1 billion hard drives – a number not only staggering in size but also emblematic of the massive amount of digital content being created in the home, hand, office, car and dozens of other markets. Consider this: the 1 billion hard drives Seagate has delivered equates to approximately 79 million terabytes, able to store 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of your favorite music – and Seagate hard drives and storage solutions enable people to create, share, enjoy and protect more digital content every day.”


One billion units sold is an impressive milestone for any company. It will be interesting to see when Western Digital, the second largest hard drive manufacturer after Seagate, can boast a similar achievement. By the way, the press release is worth reading just to see how far things have progressed in the last 30 years.

Click here to read the press release.

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