I remember my first computer; it didn’t even have a hard drive. Any computer geek that started young in the 80’s will remember them too. Seagate says when it shipped its first hard drive in 1979 the thing had a paltry 5MB of storage and cost $1,500. That wouldn’t hold one of your hi-rez LOLKat pics today.

Seagate says that it is the first hard drive manufacturer to ship one billion hard drives. It took Seagate 29 years to ship 1 billion drives and it says that 500 million of the drives shipped in 2007 alone compared to only 30 million shipped in 1990.

The 1 billion drives Seagate has shipped adds up to about 79 million terabytes and could store 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of music. I bet RIAA isn’t happy about that last stat. Seagate says that while it took 29 years to ship its first billion drives, it expects to ship its second billion within the next 5 years.

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