On April 22nd 2008, Seagate shipped its 1 billionth drive. To put thing in perspective, it amounts to approximately 79 million terabytes, able to store 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of your favorite music.
Although it took 29 years to reach the 1 billion milestone, Seagate hopes to ship its next billion in less than FIVE years..... With perpendicular recording areal density of 100 gigabits per square inch (Seagate HAMR), just imagine the amount of digital data we will have in the next five years........ See: http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=null&vgnextoid=43afb55a61379110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD http://blogs.pcmag.com/miller/2008/04/one_billion_hard_drives_and_co.php http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144963/seagate_ships_onebillionth_hard_drive.html _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
