Seagate ships 1 billionth hard drive |
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.

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Today Seagate took the wraps off of their first hybrid notebook hard drive featuring a combination of standard hard drive storage and Flash memory. The Momentus 5400 PSD features only a 5400 rpm spindle but promises faster system response times along with extended notebook battery life and better storage reliability. We’ve seen hybrid drives like these in the past with
Seagate is gearing up for the holiday shopping season by unveiling the latest generation of its popular Maxtor OneTouch external hard drive backup solutions. The Maxtor OneTouch 4 family is available in three models and various hard drive sizes starting now.
Seagate formally introduced DAVE, the Digital Audio Video Experience at the DEMO 07 Conference. DAVE is a pocket-sized device that provides 10-20 GB of wireless storage for mobile phones, PCs, and other wireless-enabled devices using Bluetooth or WiFi connections. DAVE is about the size of a centimeter-thick credit card, measuring 3.5 x 4.7 x .47 inches (61 x 89 x 12 mm) and weighing only 2.5 ounces (70 grams).
The need for greater storage performance density while keeping power consumption and heat relatively low was a challenge that Seagate met back in 2003 with a move to the form factor drives for enterprise systems. Today Seagate continues leading the same market by announcing the world’s fastest hard drive - the Savvio 15K drive.
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