Six Things You May Not Know About Seagate and Storage Hard Drives

 
 
By eweek  |  Posted 2007-09-25 Email Print this article Print
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Storage has come a long way since the first hard disk drive shipped in 1956, with no end in sight to the growth in unit shipments and data storage needs.

By Chris Preimesberger

 
 
 
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2. Since its inception in 1979, Seagate has shipped about 907 million hard drives. Laid end to end, the drives would stretch 12.5 times around Earth.
Six Things You May Not Know About Seagate and Storage Hard Drives
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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