Seagate: 1 billion drives served
by Paul Miller, posted Apr 22nd 2008 at 10:25AM
Seagate claims it’s the first company to hit the magical “one billion drives shipped” mark, and doesn’t plan on slowing down any time soon. The company was founded in 1979, with its first drive offering up 5MB of storage for a whopping $1,500. We’ve certainly come a long way in 29 years, and Seagate expects to ship its next billion drives in less than five years. Of course, with all this “cloud computing” talk we’d think drive sales have to slow down at some point, but there’s certainly no sign of our GB appetites abating just yet. Now if you’ll excuse us, we need to download this 7GB MMO demo to a secondary hard drive.
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