Boss style is still: Seagate hard drive historical shipments exceeded 1.5 billion

Although after the firmware storm, lost the top spot on the hard disk market, Seagate hard drive is still the first choice in many people's minds. Today, Seagate announced that as of October 20, 2010, cumulative shipments of its hard disk history have rapidly exceeded the astonishing 1.5 billion mark.

On April 22, 2008, Seagate once celebrated the history of hard drive shipments reaching the first time in the history of 1 billion blocks, but it now takes only one and a half years to span another 500 million blocks. At this speed, Seagate will usher in two billion glory within two years. In other words, Seagate will complete its past 29 years in less than five years - Seagate was founded in 1979. You know, Facebook, a popular social networking site founded in 2004, took six years to get 500 million users.

Seagate also gave a series of interesting data:

What was the equivalent of the previous one billion hard disks? With a total capacity of 79 million TB or 79 EB, it can store 158 billion hours of digital video and 1.2 trillion hours of music.

What is the current 1.5 billion hard disk? With a total capacity of 11850000TB or 118.5EB, it can store 237 billion hours of digital video and 1.8 trillion hours of music.