Seagate - 1 Billion!
Ladies and gentlemen, today we have to celebrate. Well, not all of us, because those guys at Western Digital or other big HDD manufacturers don't have anything to celebrate. In fact, all those into this industry should bow their heads and kneel before Seagate, the first hard drive manufacturer to hit the 1 billion shipped units mark!
In 29 years, Seagate managed to sell about 79,000,000 TB of storage space, enough to keep almost 160 billion hours of video content or 1.2 trillion hours of music compressed in the MP3 format. The countdown started with the ST506 drive, pictured above, with 5MB of storage, and now their largest drives have no less than 1TB of space!
According to Bill Watkins, Seagate's CEO, "This company has an amazing, colorful and important history, which continues to be written every day by our 55,000 employees around the world. Al Shugart and a few others started the company behind a convenience store in 1979 and enabled the birth of the first PCs. Today we’re at the center of the digital content revolution. So 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."
Need I say more? 1 Billion!!!
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