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+-   Seagate ships billionth hard drive-> on Tuesday April 22 2008, @09:29PM Lucas123

Submitted by Lucas123 on Tuesday April 22 2008, @09:29PM
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Lucas123 writes "What a differnce 30 years makes. 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."
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