13 May 2008
Seagate ships 1 Billion hard drives
Seagate have just announced that they have shipped an incredible 1Billion hard drives, comprising internal and external hard drives. This incredible figure equates to 79 Billion terabytes of data. Which is quite a lot of disk space!
Seagate claims that by the time its rivals reach the same milestone, it would have surpassed the 2 billion hard drive mark.
Seagate have done dramatically well with their disk drive business, considering the incredible competition. They remain one of the top brands and carry a premium, which is a tough thing to achieve in the cut throat disk drive business.