Seagate ships its 1 Billionth HDD

Seagate Technology recently reported that it is the first company to reach the sale of their 1 billionth hard drive.

The company says the one billion hard drives Seagate has delivered equates to approximately 79 million terabytes, able to store 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of music.

It's funny, because in 1979 when Seagate shipped their first hard drive (ST506 HDD), it was only capable of holding 5 megabytes! It weighed in at 5 lbs and cost $1500! Thankfully, because of the advances in hard drive technology, we can now buy a 250 gigabyte hard drive for around £50 :D!

Seagate says that although it took 29 years to reach the billion milestone, the company will ship its next billion in less than 5 years.