Seagate: 1 billion hard drives delivered Posted on 23/04/2008 at 19:27 by Nicolas
Seagate, the largest hard drive manufacturer, announced being the first to have delivered more than a billion units for a total capacity of roughly 79 million terabytes after 29 years of presence on this market. According to the firm’s estimations, the next billion should be attained in the next five years! We should add that Seagate managed to get its hands on two large defunct manufacturers; there was Maxtor and Quantum’s hard drive division which it had previously acquired.
The ST506, the first hard drive Seagate launched in 1979, had a capacity of 5 MB and cost $1500 at the time. Currently, the Californian company offers the Barracuda which attains the terabyte. We will just have to wait and see if SSDs will manage to entirely replace are good ole’ hard drives one day.
Seagate, the largest hard drive manufacturer, announced being the first to have delivered more than a billion units for a total capacity of roughly 79 million terabytes after 29 years of presence on this market. According to the firm’s estimations, the next billion should be attained in the next five years! We should add that Seagate managed to get its hands on two large defunct manufacturers; there was Maxtor and Quantum’s hard drive division which it had previously acquired.