Seagate First To Ship Two Billion Hard Disk Drives!

Seagate today announced it is the first hard disk drive manufacturer to ship two billion hard disk drives (HDD)—a staggering number fueled by the explosive demand for storage from mobile applications, cloud infrastructures, social media, business applications and a wide variety of consumer markets. A testament to the pivotal role played by storage in today’s digital world, it took Seagate 29 years to reach one billion units shipped and just four years to reach the second billion milestone.

The company also doesn’t appear to be slowing down as home storage needs are continuing to increase.

“By 2015 households which today routinely consume 1TB of data a month are expected to generate 20 times the amount of data than they currently save,” said Richard Doherty, research director of the Envisioneering Group, a technology research and consulting company. “Consumer’s continued appetites for securely saving and organizing high-definition multimedia requires higher performance and the most trusted and dependable drives. Seagate’s drives and technology roadmap provide the ideal solution for consumer’s soaring need for storage in the home – and away; now, and in the future.”