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

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    September 25, 2007
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      1. Since the introduction of hard disk drives in 1956, data density (the number of bits packed within a square inch of hard drive space) has increased ten thousand-fold and the price per megabyte has decreased a thousand times. If automobiles had matched

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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.

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      3. Seagate’s first hard drive, built in 1979, was a 5.25-inch model with a total capacity of 5MB and platters spinning 3,600 times per minute. The drive could read or write more than 12 records, spread randomly over the disk, in less than a second. In 200

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      4. Seagate invested $904 million in R&D in fiscal 2007, the biggest commitment to research and development in the industry and equivalent to the total estimated wealth of John D. Rockefeller.

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      5. By 2012, Seagate estimates that the industry could ship 374 exabytes of storage — a 440 percent increase from 2007. One exabyte is equal to 1 quintillion bytes. Seagate itself could ship 300 million hard drives per year, some 10 drives per second, acc

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      76. In fiscal 2007 (July 2006 through June 2007), Seagate’s robot-powered factories churned out 159 million hard drives, a clip of:

      • 435,616 drives per day
      • 18,150 drives per hour
      • 302 drives per minute
      • 5 drives per second

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