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Seagate First to Ship 1 Billion Hard Drives

By ChannelTimes Staff
Mumbai, Jun 4, 2008

Seagate Technology today announced that it has become the first hard drive manufacturer globally to ship 1 billion hard drives. This 1 billion delivered hard drives equates to approximately 79 million terabytes, able to store 158 billion hrs of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of your favorite music.


Seagate hard drive offers a terabyte of data (or 1 million megabytes), which has enough capacity to record 32 days of high-definition video around-the-clock.

Encouraged by this achievement, the company plans to ship its next billion in less than five years. Seagate's billionth drive milestone comes as hard drive shipments continue to increase considerably. According to Gartner Group, last year more than 500 million drives were shipped, compared to 1990, when less than 30 million were shipped.

"This company has an amazing and colorful history, which continues to be written every day by our 55,000 employees around the world," said Ban Seng, managing director, Seagate (Asia-Pacific). "Reaching this milestone is a great opportunity for us to reflect on our accomplishments and those of our predecessors, and to also look forward to the great things we can still achieve as a company."

The rapid growth of digital content continues to come from a wide range of sources. This phenomenon is pushing demand for hard drives to more than 600 million units per year by 2010 and will continue to fuel hard drive demand in the decade ahead.

For example, analysts estimate that there are over 1 billion digital still and phone cameras in the world and that those devices accounted for 250 billion created images in 2006. It is predicted that user-generated content sites (like Flickr and YouTube) will produce 65 billion downloads/views by 2010.
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