Seagate Ships Billionth Hard Drive 245
Lucas123 writes "Seagate's first drive, shipped in 1979 was the ST506, which had a capacity of 5MB and cost a cool $1,500 — or $300 per megabyte. Today, a typical Seagate holds 1TB and cost just 1/5000th of a cent ($0.0002) per megabyte. Seagate, which claims to be the first company to ship a billion drives, says all those drives amounted to 79 million terabytes of capacity, enough for 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of MP3 songs." Update: 04/23 14:56 GMT by CT : The quoted fraction is wrong. Someone complain to ComputerWorld. Update: 04/23 15:13 GMT by CT : TY. The site is corrected to say "just 1/50th of a cent ($0.0002) per megabyte." The universal equation is once again balanced.
capacity (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory Simpsons quote (Score:5, Funny)
To which the answer is a resounding, YES!
Seagate: Over 1 Billion Sold (Score:2, Funny)
Best not to brag (Score:5, Funny)
Immediately following the announcement, the MPAA and RIAA each sued Seagate for 5 quintillion dollars in contributory and vicarious copyright infringement.
Capacity references elude me. (Score:3, Funny)
Makes me nostalgic too (Score:5, Funny)
I remember the first time I put the whole Library of Congress on a hard drive. It brought tears to my eyes, as I felt so lucky. Of course, this was in 2007, so I still had a few hundred more gigs to fill up with wares and music. Still it was an important experience.
Units? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:mp3s (Score:5, Funny)
With statutory damages of $150,000 per CD, it looks like the RIAA has been cheated out of at least $1.8e17 in revenue. No wonder the music industry is hurting.
FDISK, PART, FORMAT /S (Score:2, Funny)
hay! how much is that in... (Score:5, Funny)
How about a beowulf clus.... no... no makes no sense.
Heh, I, for one, welcome our large-capacity-cheap-per-megabyte-storage.... argh
ok fine - no one wants to hear it!
DOES IT FUCKING RUN LINUX?
Re:Having purchased a few Seagate products... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, they only buy the secret black market drives that were forged with the blood of a newborn goat and never fail, but smell faintly like souls burning whenever they spin up.
a still cant find last week's email (Score:3, Funny)
Milestones (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hackable too! (Score:3, Funny)
God, why do I still remember that??
Change of Logo (Score:5, Funny)
142 Million Wind Chimes! (Score:3, Funny)
Now, I'm trying to figure out how to coat my bike tank in that coloration.
Re:1tb = typical? (Score:5, Funny)
Customer: "I want one of those congress library storing things for the computing machine I bought for my kid".
A: "What capacity? 1 Tb is the typical size. Less than that and you risk your kid turning gay overnight. And die."
Re:hay! how much is that in... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hackable too! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bad Sector (Score:4, Funny)
Oh YES! My Z150 r0Qd! Mine had a off-brand "hard card" which, for all you punks who were born in the Clinton administration, was a unbranded Seagate MFM hard drive mounted on an IDE expansion card. I forget why.
Oh, and it was 30 megs!! Awesome! Actually, it was a 20 meg drive but there was some trick they did with the old MFM drives to make 20 meg drives hold 30 megs. I forget what it was.
That machine was mondo kewel. Had CGA graphics too! I forget what happened to it.
Let me tell you some more about the old days.
Where are you going?
Get back here!
Re:Bad Sector (Score:2, Funny)
Not if you work for Verizon:
http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-dollars-from-cents.html [blogspot.com]
Re:Having purchased a few Seagate products... (Score:3, Funny)
Noob.
Useless analogies (Score:3, Funny)
Seagate, which claims to be the first company to ship a billion drives, says all those drives amounted to 79 million terabytes of capacity, enough for 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of MP3 songs."
How many libraries of congress per VW Beetle is that?
Re:Makes me nostalgic too (Score:3, Funny)
...let's not forget the brief period after that where Real Men learned that early IDE drives did NOT like a low-level formatting...
Only took one drive to learn that lesson...
Re:mp3s (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hackable too! (Score:3, Funny)
I think what you really mean is you ran out of clever ideas.