Seagate Ships Billionth Hard Drive

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 23, 2008 @02:07AM from the ok-how-much-pron-is-that-now dept.

Lucas123 writes "Seagate's first drive, shipped in 1979 was the ST506, which had a capacity of 5MB and cost a cool $1,500 — or $300 per megabyte. Today, a typical Seagate holds 1TB and cost just 1/5000th of a cent ($0.0002) per megabyte. Seagate, which claims to be the first company to ship a billion drives, says all those drives amounted to 79 million terabytes of capacity, enough for 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of MP3 songs." Update: 04/23 14:56 GMT by CT : The quoted fraction is wrong. Someone complain to ComputerWorld. Update: 04/23 15:13 GMT by CT : TY. The site is corrected to say "just 1/50th of a cent ($0.0002) per megabyte." The universal equation is once again balanced.

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Having purchased a few Seagate products... by AioKits · 2008-04-23 02:11 · Score: 1, Flamebait

... let me know when they ship their billionth working hard drive. Sounds harsh, but I have not had any luck with their gear. Could just be me. Could be Oklahoma is where they send all their crappy stuff. I could be a Chinese jet pilot!

Seriously tho, kudos for moving that much hardware.

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1. Re:Having purchased a few Seagate products... by Deekin_Scalesinger · 2008-04-23 04:35 · Score: 0, Flamebait
  
  It should be Lock only.
  
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