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I guess all those MP3 files and pictures finally added up. And to think, my first hard drive was 20MB

In just under 30 years, Seagate has become the first manufacturer to ship one billion hard drives, and it expects to double that number within the next five.

In recent years, worldwide shipments of hard drives has soared — a statistic that’s not surprising considering the advent of portable digital media players and rising demand for laptops, which are typically replaced much sooner than traditional desktop PCs, as well as online data storage.

Seagate ships its billionth hard drive, promises 2 B in five years

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