14 DAY TRIAL // While announcing new products and/or technologies is generally how IT companies become subject of the latest news, other times they post certain milestones, such as the one Seagate has just revealed.
Apparently, Seagate succeeded in boosting its hard disk drive sales by a fair margin since 2008.
On April 22 of 2008, the world-class maker of hard drives proudly announced that it had reached the figure of 1 billion in terms of total HDD sales.
Considering that the company itself practically entered this business sector all the way back in 1979, that means that it took it 29 years to reach that figure.
In terms of raw storage capacity, this means that 79 million terabytes have been sold so far.
Apparently, doubling that number will come much faster than one would have expected several years back.
Within the span of only two and a half years (2008-2010), Seagate actually managed to ship 500 million more storage units. That corresponds to 39.5 million terabytes.
For those interested in more numbers, 79 million terabytes can more or less be equal to 1.2 trillion hours of music or 158 billion hours of digital video.
Conversely, the 118.5 million terabytes of the full 1.5 billion HDDs equates to 1.8 trillion hours of music and 237 billion hours of digital video.
Seagate now expects to hit the 2 billion HDD sales figure in about two more years. Basically, the company will achieve in five years what it took it almost thirty the first time around.
Granted, there have been slight concerns that SSDs will begin to erode the market share of HDDs as they get cheaper and more capacious.
Still, nothing too major should occur in this sense over the next couple of years, which means that the world-class maker of platter-based storage solutions may very well meet its 'goal'.