Seagate announced it reached the delivery of its 1.5 billionth drive as of October 20, 2010—only 2 ½ years after shipping its 1 Billionth drive. Seagate celebrated its billionth hard drive sold in April 22, 2008, and at the time, it equated to: 79 million terabytes, able to store 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of your favorite music, while the 1.5 billion hard drives delivered last month equates to approximately 118.5 million terabytes, able to store 237 billion hours of digital video or 1.8 trillion hours of music.
So…
- 29 years (1979 to 2008)
- 1 Billion drives
- 79 Million Terabytes
to…
- 2.5 years (2008 to 2010)
- 500 Million drives
- 39.5 Million Terabytes
At this rate, the 2 Billion drives milestone will happen in the next 2 years, meaning what previously took 29 years to reach will only take 5 years. Put that into a different perspective… Facebook founded in 2004 reached 500M users in 2010…6 years.
Seagate sold 500M drives in less than half the time. Cool.
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Wow, that really shows the success of SeaGate! Though I can’t say one company is better than the other since I’ve seen drives from all companies fail at some point, I can say the warranties provided and the warranty service provided by Seagate make them a clear winner!
That’s pretty awesome!
wow, I owned 3 harddrives from your company they all worked like horses. I had no idea how many you had sold. Impressive
Awesome products and great after sales services from Seagate. The HD Media Players too
Seagate ftw!
rock on
seagate drives are the best
Congrats Seagate! It is amazing how fast tech really changes. I still remeber getting my first two gig drive from you and just thinking “wow, what am i going to do with all that space. ” Now I have more RAM than that in my computer.
Very appropriate image for this post, LOL! It is simply incredible that you were able to sell half a billion drives in 2.5 years. Your next goal – to have as many drives sold as there are people in the world. Now get to it!
Thanks for all these years of service and for keeping our computers running and loaded to the gills with all the stuff we love to save.
Great milestone,
Storage become more and more important these days
Keep up the great work Seagate!
Way to go Seagate! My very first drive was a Seagate and it worked great! Keep up the good work
Congrats! Great news!
SeagateROCK !!!
I cou;dn’t wat to win one, so went shopping! Great products!
Makes me feel proud to be part of the Seagate family!!
go seagate!
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