Seagate today became the world's first company to ship 1 billion hard disk drive since its inception in 1979. So how much information Seagate has delivered in these 29 years? The 1 billion Seagate hard drives equates to approximately 79 million terabytes, able to store 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of your favorite music! And in all these years, Seagate has certainly come of age. In 1979, Seagate’s first product, the ST506 hard drive, could store 5 megabytes of data or the equivalent of one MP3 song. The drive weighed about five pounds and cost $1,500, or $300 per megabyte.

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