|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
Disclaimer |
UNML and its sites:
www.channeltimes.com, www.techtree.com
and www.cxotoday.com provide
Comments and discussion boards as a professional medium
for the various businesses of the IT industry to discuss
business problems. Gossip, personal attacks and unsubstantiated
charges are prohibited. Messages posted on this Web site
as discussion threads or Comments (Content) are solely the
opinions of their creators and do not necessarily reflect
the opinions of UNML or its sites
www.channeltimes.com, www.techtree.com
and www.cxotoday.com.
All individuals who post material to this web site are solely
responsible for all Content that they upload, post or otherwise
transmit via the Web Site. |
| UNML
cannot vouch for the authenticity of the user or company
names or e-mail addresses associated with posted messages.
Under no circumstances will UNML
or ChannelTimes
be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not
limited to, for any errors or omissions in any Content,
or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result
of the use of any Content posted or otherwise transmitted
via the Bulletin Boards. |
| UNML
reserves the exclusive right to edit or remove messages
containing inappropriate language or other material that
could be construed as libelous, potentially libelous, or
otherwise offensive or inappropriate. Discussion forums,
bulletin boards and chat facilities are provided by UNML
solely for the convenience of those who make use of the
service. UNML does not endorse the products and services
or other offerings mentioned in messages. |
|
|
|
|
|
