1.5 Billion drives! That was quick…

Seagate announced it reached the delivery of its 1.5 billionth drive as of October 20, 2010—only 2 ½ years after shipping its 1 Billionth drive.  Seagate celebrated its billionth hard drive sold in April 22, 2008, and at the time, it equated to: 79 million terabytes, able to store 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of your favorite music, while the 1.5 billion hard drives delivered last month equates to approximately 118.5 million terabytes, able to store 237 billion hours of digital video or 1.8 trillion hours of music.

So…

  • 29 years (1979 to 2008)
  • 1 Billion drives
  • 79 Million Terabytes

to…

  • 2.5 years (2008 to 2010)
  • 500 Million drives
  • 39.5 Million Terabytes

At this rate, the 2 Billion drives milestone will happen in the next 2 years, meaning what previously took 29 years to reach will only take 5 years.  Put that into a different perspective… Facebook founded in 2004 reached 500M users in 2010…6 years.

Seagate sold 500M drives in less than half the time. Cool.

Share your thoughts on this milestone by commenting on this post, and you just might win a GoFlex 1.5TB hard drive!  So chime in.  Contest Terms and Conditions

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  1. Serge November 9, 2010 at 9:27 am

    I’ve used Seagate drives for over 12 years now. Seagate makes the best drives and I wouldn’t switch for the world. For serious users, I recommend their Enterprise range drives. They cost a little more than the consumer line, but perform much better and last longer.

  2. dean November 9, 2010 at 10:49 am

    thats enough 3.5″ drives to go round the world 3.3 times ( 82859 miles of storage space! )

    • Mark Wojtasiak November 9, 2010 at 1:25 pm

      @dean Great factoid Dean. Thanks!

  3. Ken Hull November 9, 2010 at 2:34 pm

    best hard drives ever made. 🙂

  4. Curtis November 9, 2010 at 2:35 pm

    very impressive and well done!

  5. Dusty Rayburn November 9, 2010 at 2:36 pm

    That’s a lot of bytes!

  6. scott mckellar November 9, 2010 at 2:37 pm

    Exciting stuff, congrats Seagate! Always providing quality products, you deserve it. I’m loving my new Flexi setup!

  7. Louis Davidson November 9, 2010 at 2:37 pm

    What a great accomplishment. I have used Seagate drives since my 1st 5MB 5 1/4″ drive for my IBM PC

  8. mike November 9, 2010 at 2:38 pm

    seagate makes great hard drives. i got 3 of em in my pc and they work great. kudos to them for shipping out so many hard drives to many satisfied customers around the world! =)

  9. Benny Yu November 9, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    Celebrating 1.5 billion shipped drives with a chance to win a 1.5 TB hard drive prize? That’s nice.

  10. Konstantin November 9, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    That is very impressive! I’ve used several different types of external drives and haven’t seen anything as long-lasting as Seagate drives. I’m a fan! I currently own an older FreeAgent Go 250GB drive, and I’d love to have a newer drive!

  11. Julie b November 9, 2010 at 2:46 pm

    Seagate drives are the most reliable drives!

  12. George November 9, 2010 at 3:00 pm

    Needless to say, I’ve had many computers with Seagate drives in them. 2.5B? WTG!

  13. Kris Sauer November 9, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    This is soo cool. Especially being born in 1979 to see how technology has progress throughout my life time. It’s amazing how many Exabytes of data we have as a collective used and stored to over the years. My first computer was just 40MB…now with 2TB drives being around $100 it’s been a great ride. I can’t wait for the next 31 years of advancements! Yottabyte here we come!

  14. Jennifer Lavender November 9, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    That is a lot of digital videos and music.

  15. Shawn walgren November 9, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    Way to go guys! I have bought many Seagate products over the years and plan on continuing. Congratulations!

  16. Caroline November 9, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    I had a Seagate drive and it saved my life – my computer crashed and I was able to recover everything from it. I’m on my 4th drive now (TB!!!) because I back up all the photos from http://www.sphynge.com for it and love it. May you sell many more 🙂

  17. marina November 9, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    Way to go Seagate! I have all my babies photos stored safely thanks to you!

  18. steven epstein November 9, 2010 at 3:03 pm

    congrats seagate. everyone should be using only the best(seagate)
    epstein.steven@gmail.com

  19. Gabriel Diaz November 9, 2010 at 3:05 pm

    This is truly amazing, Seagate. I congratulate you. Looking at the numbers, this is a really great feat accomplished, especially compared to Facebook numbers. I have Western Digital MyBook Essential external hardcover, but I’ve never bought a Seagate one before. My roommate has 2 2-TB Seagate hard drives, and he hasn’t had any problems with them at all (a bit loud at t,es, but that’s about it). I’ve been saving up to get a 3TB Seagate GoFlex…but it would be really nice to win this drive. :]

  20. Ben November 9, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    Seagate are the only drives I use and recommend.

  21. Robert A.Samuel November 9, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    wow!.. that was really great my friends have a seagate 1mb i think that was a oldest hard drive i ever see and guess what? it still working.. lol i wish it was mine.. seagate was the best in quality and services, i remember last time i send my 320gb seagate barracuda for RMA it only takes 3 days to repair and return to me. thank you so much Seagate staff….. ” WE TURN ON IDEAS “

  22. maryte November 9, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    The name Seagate means hard drive to me, and has since my very first droid with a hard drive – a Seagate ST-225 20 MG hard drive!

  23. snowed in November 9, 2010 at 3:09 pm

    Congrats, Seagate! I remember writing system compatibility test cases for Seagate drives long, long ago when I worked for a major computer manufacturer. Don’t recall having any problems with Seagate drives during the testing.

  24. Robin Bullock November 9, 2010 at 3:10 pm

    I’m reminded of just a few decades ago, 256k of storage was the size of several refrigerators, and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars

  25. Rita Sams November 9, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    What the heck are we saving on all these drives? LOL! Congratulations Seagate!, I really do love your products!

  26. Janine November 9, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    Big congrats Seagate!!

  27. Afzal November 9, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    Seagate is awesome with everything especially harddrives … The 1st to come up with a 3TB thereby leading by example which is great.

    At this rate of 1.5TB hdd’s being s0ld etc … Theres no reason why seagate wouldn’t be termed as the best

    For me, its seagate all the way … Keep up the good work

    facebook, seagate … They both top priority 4 everyone

    You’ll be lost without them.

    Kind Regards
    Afzal Khan

  28. MrLoco November 9, 2010 at 3:39 pm

    Congratulations with your milestone Seagate, this news made me notice that Seagate has been arround for some while now.. Almost two times my age! Hopefully you’ll stick around some longer, hey, everyone needs disk space to put games on right? Maybe seagate shouldexpand it’s horison, maybe you should start to make other pc components, like Motherboards, Cases, fans, memory, etc. Just a suggestion from a customer though…

  29. drougnor November 9, 2010 at 3:46 pm

    Congrats, Seagate! Keep up the awesome work and we’ll be celebrating 2 billion before you know it!

  30. Joel November 9, 2010 at 3:52 pm

    No surprise here… if a product works and is reliable, the consumers will sustain it. Seagate drives are the only ones I’ve had which didn’t crap out, unlike those drives from a more “western” supplier which always died on me.

  31. Carlos November 9, 2010 at 4:11 pm

    Congrats.. Saw this post via my twitter account. I’m a true believer in your product.. sent a retweet btw

    • Mark Wojtasiak November 9, 2010 at 4:13 pm

      @Carlos Thanks for the retweet!

  32. John Harker November 9, 2010 at 4:14 pm

    Much better than a big mac..!

  33. oasis789 November 9, 2010 at 4:35 pm

    Soon, Seagate will be making petabytes and exabytes and zetabytes of storage a day, and then all those drives will network and become self-aware and create SeagateNet, the AI that will enslave humanity for ever.

  34. Brian Capps November 9, 2010 at 4:36 pm

    1.5 billion?

  35. Rich November 9, 2010 at 4:37 pm

    Congratulations Seagate for reaching this impressive milestone!

  36. Argelia November 9, 2010 at 4:39 pm

    Keep it up Seagate with your great products and outstanding service.

  37. Peter November 9, 2010 at 4:53 pm

    Out of all the hard drive options, Seagate is always my first choice. I even bought the 3TB GoFlex drive this week to compliment my 1TB Freeagent drive. Congrats, I’m sure you’ll be at 1 trillion drives very soon.

  38. Jonathon Krueck November 9, 2010 at 5:23 pm

    I’ve been a Seagate customer since around 2005. Just haven’t trusted another drive since. Not one Seagate failed yet.

  39. stacey dempsey November 9, 2010 at 5:27 pm

    i have a seagate , but 3 teens and multiple computers sure would love another one , they are awesome , CONGRATS on your milestone

  40. KazVal November 9, 2010 at 6:12 pm

    Have used these GREAT drives for a short time but it travels well with me and does ALL the promised things. Thanks Seagate. You’re awesome XOXO

  41. Chaim Weisswasser November 9, 2010 at 6:15 pm

    Great Hard Drives you guys make!!

  42. Paul A Lee November 9, 2010 at 6:55 pm

    The first disk drive I ever dealt with had 16 MB of 55 ms storage in a unit the size of a home clothes washing machine, and cost $55k. The first disk drive I ever installed in my own system had 40 MB of 40 ms storage in a 5¼” full-height drive and cost $1010 (including the full-size ISA bus controller board). Now, I can get 1.5 TB of sub-10 ms storage that’s smaller than a paperback novel for $100.

    Wow…

  43. Jordan Fritzsche November 9, 2010 at 7:23 pm

    “Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”
    – Popular. Mechanics, 1949

    Now look how far we have come! Seagate is a pioneer in many fields of technology and by developing incredible hard drives they are pushing the limits of computer development. Now hard drives that can hold billions and billions of files fit literally in the palm on a person’s hand. The limits are endless and Seagate is promoting faster technology at superior quality! Thanks!

  44. Ken November 9, 2010 at 8:03 pm

    Congratulations! I love Seagate drives. Currently have 8 of them in my laptops and desktops.

  45. Gail W November 9, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    WooHoo!! WTG Segate! Best hard drives ever made!

  46. David B November 9, 2010 at 8:36 pm

    Wow 1.5B! I remember when I got my 1st Seagate..a whole 20Mb MFM drive.

  47. John Carroz November 9, 2010 at 8:49 pm

    Awesome milestone. And still cranking out the newest hottest tech. You guys rock!

  48. Rahim Ali November 9, 2010 at 9:44 pm

    Excellent milestone. Should reach the next big milestone or double this one hopefully quicker than it took to reach one thanks to Windows 7 🙂

  49. Jed November 9, 2010 at 9:50 pm

    First drive I ever got was a Seagate, and I’ve been sticking with you ever since. Old IDE drives to Sata, 3.5 and 2.5 inch drives, and on to SSD drives, Seagate is reliable and my choice.

  50. Gary Smith November 9, 2010 at 9:51 pm

    1.5 Billion drives? That’s quite an accomplishment.

  51. Diana Smith HIll November 9, 2010 at 10:14 pm

    “1.5 Billion drives! That was quick…”
    I love seagate! I need a new one.. a larger one for my stuff! I can always depend on Seagate to keep my information safe!

  52. Jeremy Schmidt November 9, 2010 at 10:30 pm

    Congrats! Amazing milestone, and great quality product.

  53. Happy Tinfoil Cat November 9, 2010 at 10:44 pm

    My first Seagate was an ST412 which held twice the ST506 did and Al said that was all anyone would need.

  54. Peter November 9, 2010 at 10:48 pm

    That’s a whole lot of burgers…

  55. Jeff Jebson November 9, 2010 at 11:04 pm

    “Seagate is just great” Congrats!!

  56. KenR November 9, 2010 at 11:16 pm

    Very impressive. I wonder how much over the next 2 years, those drives will actually be “In the Cloud” vs in someone’s desktop or laptop? What is the projection of SSD to Traditional drives?

    Keep up the great work!

    Ken (1st seagate was ST-225!)

  57. SCV November 9, 2010 at 11:18 pm

    Wow, 500 Million Drives shipped in only 2.5 years. It shows how quickly computer technology has progressed in the 21st Century compared to the 20th.

    Congrats Seagate.

  58. Jiro Goto November 9, 2010 at 11:35 pm

    Thanks for all the memories Seagate!

  59. Gavin November 9, 2010 at 11:50 pm

    And soon the machines will take over the world, I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

  60. Aaron L November 10, 2010 at 1:00 am

    A lot places to store personal stuff! Been using internal Seagates 3.5″ drives for all my builds for awhile now.

  61. Jackson J November 10, 2010 at 1:41 am

    I remember the days when a 10GB Hard Drive was considered “large”. Oh how far we’ve come in such a short time!

  62. Sidney Cook November 10, 2010 at 1:48 am

    Congrats on reaching this milestone!!

  63. lostjuan November 10, 2010 at 1:52 am

    Man that is a lot of spins.

  64. Andrew November 10, 2010 at 1:58 am

    Nice work seagate. I’d love to try out your new flex vs my old disks and my SSD. Always been a seagate fan!

  65. Roxy November 10, 2010 at 3:46 am

    Crazy imagine the total size of those drives combined given you knew the size of each one. I wonder how many average users actually use the full drive though I’m guessing not many.

  66. Marc Morale November 10, 2010 at 3:56 am

    My very first computer with a hard drive (a Bentley 8088) had dual 20MB Seagates. My college friends thought I was nuts for paying extra to have 40MB of storage. “You’ll never fill those up” they would say. My, how times have changed…

  67. Marcus November 10, 2010 at 4:39 am

    Seagate r0x my s0x!

  68. Rob C November 10, 2010 at 4:54 am

    It’s crazy to think that in another decade, those 140 million terabytes Seagate has sold over 29 years will probably be available as a chip inserted directly into your brain.

  69. Andrew November 10, 2010 at 5:32 am

    congratulations

  70. Marcel Boudreau November 10, 2010 at 5:34 am

    Talk about storage. Congratulations on reaching this milestone.

  71. Richard Macdonald November 10, 2010 at 5:36 am

    High five on the milestone!

  72. joyce s. November 10, 2010 at 6:01 am

    If only I could come up with something I could sell that many of.

  73. Pete Christensen November 10, 2010 at 6:02 am

    I have 5 internal HDs and 2 external. Can definitely use another one

  74. David November 10, 2010 at 6:14 am

    Congratulations Seagate! All you drives from the 1st to the 1.5 billionth one must have been great.

  75. John November 10, 2010 at 6:15 am

    Congratulations. Seagate has almost sold enough space to store the entire wealth of all human experience.

  76. Dwight Whiteman November 10, 2010 at 6:23 am

    I’m an “advanced amature” fixing and building for friends and family. I have been building PCs for about 20yrs, my first was a 386 40MHZ AMD with a Cyrix co-processor, 40MB HDD and 2 mb ram and DOS 6.1 (I think). I have had many hard drives of various brands over the years and have had lots of failures, some catastrophic. I now use ony Segate drives. They alone have never completely failed( one with some bad sectors that was quickly retired). Great Drives, Great warrantys and great prices.

  77. Todd November 10, 2010 at 6:30 am

    That’s great. I love Seagate.

  78. Joanne November 10, 2010 at 6:42 am

    Congrats! 🙂 Always like your products!

  79. Ryan November 10, 2010 at 6:45 am

    That’s awesome.

  80. Derek Soares November 10, 2010 at 6:45 am

    I just wanted to congratulate Seagate on reaching such an impressive milestone.

  81. Ben November 10, 2010 at 6:54 am

    An impressive milestone, and testament to Seagate’s commitment to affordable reliability and performance. I am an IT professional and Seagate fan who could definitely put a 1.5 TB GoFlex drive to good use.

  82. Mark B November 10, 2010 at 6:57 am

    Congrats Seagate – way to take a “byte” (or, 118.5 terabytes) out of the competition

  83. Brett November 10, 2010 at 7:05 am

    This is an incredible milestone! Proof positive of the fantastic products you sell!

  84. visut November 10, 2010 at 7:07 am

    welldone……keep dev.more high tech

  85. visut November 10, 2010 at 7:09 am

    well done keep up your good repetation

  86. Catherine Campbell November 10, 2010 at 7:14 am

    A quality product! Congratulations

  87. chris swan November 10, 2010 at 7:24 am

    WOW congratulations. Cheers to 1.5 billion and wish you 1.5 billion more!

  88. Mark Wojtasiak November 10, 2010 at 7:29 am

    Thanks for all the kudos everyone…the accomplishment is because of all of you. Keep rockin the content and storing it up!

  89. Michael November 10, 2010 at 7:29 am

    1.5 billion served!. I’m lovin` it..

    • Mark Wojtasiak November 10, 2010 at 7:35 am

      @Michael Very creative Michael 🙂

  90. Daniel T November 10, 2010 at 7:31 am

    Congrats Seagate and thanks for exceeding our expectations with every product you guys make. I couldn`t make it without my little 400GB Seagate hard-drive. Go Seagate, go! All the best!

  91. Kimmie November 10, 2010 at 8:02 am

    Congratulations on the milestone, I would love to have one!!

  92. Karl Moltzen November 10, 2010 at 8:17 am

    How many 8 inch floppies would that be?

    • Mark Wojtasiak November 10, 2010 at 9:16 am

      @Karl Moltzen Hey Karl…I believe that would be…. 160,330,652,903,226… 6.2Mb 8 inch floppies 🙂

  93. dave jung November 10, 2010 at 8:20 am

    that is some milestone, seagate has been one of my goto drives

  94. Rudi November 10, 2010 at 8:20 am

    You guys did great!! WOW!!

    Congratulations on an amazing achievement!

    Seagate will always be the best!

    Great stuff =]

  95. Andy G November 10, 2010 at 8:24 am

    Glad we can help with those sales. You are the only brand of hard drives we will use.

  96. Elvin Carbonel November 10, 2010 at 8:37 am

    Yay, love large storage

  97. Peter November 10, 2010 at 8:54 am

    I am planning on building a new desktop computer for movies and shows and so I will need a lot of storage. I am definitely going to look at Seagate hard drives as a part of my new desktop computer.

  98. Peter November 10, 2010 at 8:55 am

    I still remember my first HD – 40 MB and it had to be partitioned. I upgraded to a 120MB and then a 500MB (more space than I’d ever possibly need). I don’t know what I was thinking at the time. Of course, every couple of years, I’m getting larger hard drives so I know I’m helping those counts go up. Sadly, even a 1.5TB will only get me by for a little while before that fills up and I’ll be looking at more and more storage. Looking forward to the future and Petabyte drives. 🙂

  99. carmen guajardo November 10, 2010 at 9:03 am

    1.5 Billion drives amazing congrats

  100. Lee Sullivan November 10, 2010 at 9:03 am

    I love our Seagate drive and would love to be able to store even photos and memories on a 1.5TB.

  101. Auriette November 10, 2010 at 9:04 am

    Keep making high quality products and you’ll soon be celebrating your trillionth sale. People need reliable storage options, and Seagate definitely delivers.

  102. Jeannette November 10, 2010 at 9:05 am

    Congrats on the Milestone, and here’s to the next 1.5 BILLION!!!!

  103. Ankit November 10, 2010 at 9:06 am

    Feels great to be a contributor in the achievement, a full 1 TB of contribution with my Seagate external 🙂

    PS: Would there be a breakup of Enterprise/Retail contribution too.( A tad difficult to shut the market researcher mode)

  104. Andrea W. November 10, 2010 at 9:06 am

    You guys make a quality product which is why people always come back for more. I know we have relied on you guys for years!

  105. ilRadd November 10, 2010 at 9:06 am

    Congrats!

    Currently running a Seagate 1T HD I bought last year! Rock solid performance!

    Thanks

  106. Alan Cordova November 10, 2010 at 9:07 am

    Just goes to show you how good Sea Gate drives are.

  107. Patrick Thompson November 10, 2010 at 9:09 am

    Seagate has always had great drives. I remember my first pc only had a 1.3 GIG HDD in it. I don’t even know how I was able to keep everything on that thing. Now I have a computer with 3 terabytes in it. WOW…Great job Seagate!

  108. Raegen T. November 10, 2010 at 9:12 am

    Absolutely unreal. It’s only in the past few years that I even needed to know what a terabyte was! Congrats, Seagate.

  109. Neil November 10, 2010 at 9:14 am

    It’s a bit hard to really fathom 1.5 billion of anything….I can only imagine what a feeling it is to achieve such numbers. So big congrats to Seagate.

    I actually have a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex, its only 320gb, but it runs really fast and is my life!

  110. Chad Quon November 10, 2010 at 9:18 am

    Wooooooooo! Go Seagate! Always have been a fan.

  111. Steven Yagozinski November 10, 2010 at 9:21 am

    Congrats!

    I agree that storage has never been more important. Three months ago I setup a home server with mirrored Seagate 1tb drives. I recently purchased a GoFlex 2tb usb external for $89. Now I’m gonna setup the external to be the mirror and reformat the server to be 2tb.

    Hopefully that will handle my storage for a year (considering all of my kids’ photos, music, and videos, I’m not so sure…) 🙂

  112. Vijay November 10, 2010 at 9:23 am

    Seagators! Cheers to the Gators In the Sea of storage. You guys take all the bytes and the cake! Your achievement is no joke! Great milestone guys!

  113. Aaron Cogburn November 10, 2010 at 9:28 am

    i love seagate…. no i love the guys at seagate always inovating and i love it. keep up the good work.

  114. amy November 10, 2010 at 9:43 am

    1.5 billion… not too shabby!

  115. Laura Ann Adams November 10, 2010 at 9:50 am

    Wow. 1.5 billion. I can’t fathom that big a number. Congratulations!

  116. Sikandar A November 10, 2010 at 9:58 am

    Congratulations, quite an accomplishment. Here’s to 1.5 billion more!

  117. Wes Karmi November 10, 2010 at 10:09 am

    Keep it up guys! Hopefully everyone will have a SSD soon!

  118. Yijiao November 10, 2010 at 10:10 am

    too many bytes

  119. Francis Vinh November 10, 2010 at 10:27 am

    Always dependable. Still have my 500mb HD

  120. Lee November 10, 2010 at 10:47 am

    Bring on the next 1.5 billion! Congratulations, Seagate!

  121. Jefferson November 10, 2010 at 11:01 am

    Nice. I’ve always like Seagate products.

  122. cc November 10, 2010 at 11:09 am

    Awesome stats! Congratulations!

  123. Gary H November 10, 2010 at 11:17 am

    Wow! Of course, I feel like I must have bought half of those. 😉

    It’s Seagate, all the way!

  124. Tanis November 10, 2010 at 11:18 am

    Congrats on the milestone and it’s no wonder you have hit it so quick as I hear great things about your drives!

    Hubby and I have been talking about getting one, so would love to win one!!!

    Thanks, cheers to the next 1.5!

  125. SHOUNAK MANDAL November 10, 2010 at 11:18 am

    Great….!!!
    but still I dont know how to get back my half dead 500 GB internal HDD.Need to update firmware.

  126. Erdem Bicer November 10, 2010 at 11:36 am

    Congratulations Seagate, We love you. Seagate is king of HDD’s. Really, you turn our ideas ! Thanks. Certainly, I think this 1.5 Billion will be reach 2.0 Billion and higher! Good works.

  127. rismit November 10, 2010 at 11:39 am

    My Commodore 64 (I know it dates me a little) had a 10 megabyte Hd with a 20 megabyte Hd option.I could not see why anybody would spend that much money on storage that big, just ridiculous.

  128. eks November 10, 2010 at 11:44 am

    29 years and still going strong. Impressive.

  129. ilker November 10, 2010 at 11:55 am

    my first choise always been seagate… Congratulations!

  130. Burcu November 10, 2010 at 12:54 pm

    that’s very impressive. Congrats!

  131. Lily Chau November 10, 2010 at 1:05 pm

    Congrats, Seagate !

  132. Darwin November 10, 2010 at 1:29 pm

    Amazing product, and what a way to celebrate. we eat as many burgers as much as we consume hardrives!!!! like a burger, our hard drives tend to bulk up …..hahaha…congrats seagate!

  133. Dave Mc November 10, 2010 at 1:43 pm

    My first laptop had an 8 Gig HD and that was 10 years ago. To think now they have external HDs capable of storing Terabytes. Progress, unthinkable..

  134. Salih Cenk Ozcan November 10, 2010 at 1:45 pm

    Congrats. That’s quite an achievement. It’s still hard to believe that our lifes and actually whole world spin around motors and platters.

    Also thanks for producing reliable products such as ST3250410AS. I have two of these. Still works like a charm since the very first day I plugged in.

    Have a nice day for all! Keep up the good work and wake me up when you hit 3 Billions…

  135. Sam November 10, 2010 at 2:05 pm

    Wow. I remember when hard drives were new, and floppies were more space than we’d ever need. Now, one drive has more capacity than an entire company’s storage was back then. Who would have ever thought so many drive would be sold and the size would grow so huge?

  136. serhat ballıkaya November 10, 2010 at 2:16 pm

    it is amazing. my 2 external harddisk are seagate. good luck to u seagate

  137. John Perryman November 10, 2010 at 2:31 pm

    That there is a whole lot of storage! I am now sad, my hardrive holds an oustanding!!! 500gig!! Wwwweeeoeoooo!! ha! Crongrats on the superb amount of sales!

  138. Brad November 10, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    Half a billion drives in 2 years? Crazy!

  139. Cole P November 10, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    Myself and my brothers grew up sharing a PC that had 4GB on it for games. We were pretty privileged to even have that much data at the time, and its crazy to think that we are in an age where I just casually buy 2TB worth of storage at any day of the week at around 100$

  140. Arnaud Martin November 10, 2010 at 3:58 pm

    Exponential growth rates? Check out power laws… the math is really cool

  141. Edward Hernandez November 10, 2010 at 3:59 pm

    I curently have a Seagate Constellation drive and I love it it’s never failed me, even after many re-formats. Great work Seagate!

  142. Tony-T November 10, 2010 at 4:01 pm

    Thatsa lotta drives!

    Congrats on such a momentus milestone. And speaking of momentus, big congrats on coming up with such a sleep product in the Momentus XT 2.5″ drive. I recently picked up one of these for a project build and it is suprisingly fast. Sure it’s 7200 RPM but who knew these hybrids would transform the world of storage? And that’s why they are such a sleeper, because most people haven’t recognized where things are going next. Long live the Momentus XT (and I mean that literally because if it suffers a premature death I’m going to be rather pissed). Looking forward to where your design engineers take us next in this exciting world of storage. Yes I used the word exciting, why shouldn’t we?

  143. TW November 10, 2010 at 4:04 pm

    With the way entertainment and the internet is integrating and taking up a bigger chunk of our lives I think you’ll probably reach 2 billion faster than the current prediction. COngrats!

  144. ETHANHB November 10, 2010 at 4:17 pm

    My thoughts are holy crap that’s a lot of… data.

  145. Heyman H November 10, 2010 at 4:21 pm

    I hold 3 drives out of this billion 🙂

  146. Philip November 10, 2010 at 4:30 pm

    That’s a lot of 0’s and 1’s stored on Seagate drives!

  147. Edmond Leung November 10, 2010 at 4:39 pm

    Ya, ya,nice job. contgradulation, yada yada. Now pick me, your next winner! Starving artist here desperately needs a hard drive to store my precious art work.

  148. spamgirl November 10, 2010 at 4:46 pm

    Congrats! Well deserved milestone 🙂

  149. ljclo November 10, 2010 at 4:54 pm

    My husband exclusively uses Seagate drives, congrats on your 1.5 Billion!

  150. torooo November 10, 2010 at 5:35 pm

    Congrats!

  151. AnubisReturns November 10, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    Congrats!, I’m still using an old 160gb seagate as my OS, still hasn’t failed!

  152. Michal Dziubek November 10, 2010 at 5:47 pm

    Seagate produces some great HD’s so it’s no wonder they reached this milestone this quickly. Great achievement for the company.

  153. Brennan November 10, 2010 at 5:47 pm

    Im glad I could ever so slightly help Seagate get here!
    I will continue to help then reach 2 Billion!!

  154. Debbie Lemaire November 10, 2010 at 6:27 pm

    1.5 billion drives…what an amazing accomplishment! Congratulations

  155. Rob November 10, 2010 at 6:29 pm

    Amazing. Who knows where storage will be in 10 years.

  156. Cihan November 10, 2010 at 6:44 pm

    Wow.. What a great number..
    Congrats !

  157. James Woodfin November 10, 2010 at 6:49 pm

    You guys at Seagate are awesome. Never had a single problem with your drives. In fact, they are so good I use internal Seagate drives to run my home servers on and use external Seagate drives to back it all up. Keep up the good work!!!

  158. Victor Lun November 10, 2010 at 6:56 pm

    Congrats
    only 2.5 years

  159. donna l. November 10, 2010 at 7:12 pm

    Congrats on your great achievement and good luck for continued success !

  160. nick a. November 10, 2010 at 7:13 pm

    Seagate is a great quality product in my experience. Keep up the good work and congrats !

  161. Tim McNeill November 10, 2010 at 7:38 pm

    I live here in the Twin Cites of Minneapolis and Saint Paul and have always supported Seagate and their products because of this. I have used Seagate drives for the last 12 years. I congratulate you on this great milestone. Companies such as yours deseve a milestone like this because you have always offered great customer service, great products, and reliability with my and others valuable data. Your GoFlex line is just one example of how your company has innovated in this marget segment. I will continue to trust my important data to a company who has never failed me and a company that continues to develop great new product storage options. Congratulations on a well deserved point a great companies history!!

  162. simplemitch November 10, 2010 at 7:49 pm

    Congratulations! I remember my very first hard drive… a 20 lb 5 meg monstrosity!

  163. Michael Mundy November 10, 2010 at 7:54 pm

    Seagate makes great products. Congratulations.

  164. CR November 10, 2010 at 7:56 pm

    Impressive numbers! Next step: Seagate HDDs with Happy Meals!

  165. Rakesh November 10, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    I still have my old 40 gb seagate HD which was a great thing those days…within no years, 40 gb pendrives are nothing these days…wat a fast growing technology. Anyways congrats seagate team. m/

  166. Cory DeLaughter November 10, 2010 at 8:19 pm

    wow 1.5 billion drives….. impressive very impressive… the seagate brand is a very good brand i just purchased a seagate free agent pro 500Gb unit yesterday from a local selling it brand new in the box, unfortunately within 60 minutes, the dang thing started making grinding noises when i picked it straight up carefully and set it back down to move my laptop. And also i was reading the warranty policy and I’m not covered because i didn’t ask for the receipt when i bought it from the guy. It made me pretty angry because i had just backed up my laptops 250Gb hard drive onto it, and to make it worse, shortly after that my laptop crashed because it was over loaded with all of my music and games. So i lost literally everything, i had important word documents in there too. As you can tell, my laptop is back up and running because i did a fresh install of Windows XP on it less than 45 minutes ago, but everything is lost and my drive is wiped clean back to 250Gb. But i guess thats what i get for overloading my laptop… but thanks Seagate company for making many products that are successful other than the FreeAgent Pro.. it is the only one i have read bad reviews on…. all the others were great reviews. Keep up the great work and i hope you make it to 2 billion in two years like you are hoping to do so.

  167. PUCKU November 10, 2010 at 8:31 pm

    I would rather see 1.5 billion sold over 1.5 billion served any day of the week.

  168. Maclellan November 10, 2010 at 8:41 pm

    Wow. well done Seagate. I myself have three Seagate drives. Keep making quality hard drives, and I will keep buying them

  169. Michelle November 10, 2010 at 8:41 pm

    Great sales for a great product.

  170. JH November 10, 2010 at 8:43 pm

    Unbelievable! My first hard drive, in a laptop back in the late 1980’s was 10 MB and that was considered amazing in those days. It sure beat inserting a floppy every time you wanted to Print from WordPerfect, and then reinsert the Program floppy after you finished printing to your dot matrix printer.

    Ten years from now, 3TB drives will be relics of the past that the kids laugh at.

  171. rr91932 November 10, 2010 at 8:45 pm

    cool
    can I have one

  172. MANUEL VIZCAYA November 10, 2010 at 8:46 pm

    sweet

  173. steve karkenny November 10, 2010 at 8:46 pm

    congrats! man, how technology advances….

  174. Cindy November 10, 2010 at 8:49 pm

    Truely outstanding, demonstrating excellence in manufacturing process and quality. Good Job!

  175. Steve November 10, 2010 at 8:51 pm

    Mmm 237 billion hours of video. Good stuff.
    All my video content sits on a seagate!

  176. Matt November 10, 2010 at 9:10 pm

    Woohoo, I’ve owned at least 5 of those 1.5 billion. I’m doing my part :p

    That’s one pretty impressive number.

    …Ah bum, I don’t live in the US!

  177. Stig4606 November 10, 2010 at 9:11 pm

    Love Seagate drives:). Congrats Seagate!

  178. Aswin S November 10, 2010 at 9:16 pm

    The best part about Seagate is its after sales support and warranty returns.. from my own experience.. Good Work Seagate

  179. marco mancia November 10, 2010 at 9:17 pm

    when it comes to external media, seagate is always the most reliable

  180. Jeremy S November 10, 2010 at 9:18 pm

    I remember when the word gigabyte was just starting to be attached to HDDs…..ahh the memories. Congrats Seagate, you all deserve the success.

  181. Gary November 10, 2010 at 9:20 pm

    That’s a lot of spinning platters! Well done! I’m looking forward to even bigger and better things in the future for Seagate.

  182. Ben November 10, 2010 at 9:27 pm

    Oh dang count me in. Nice milestone keep on going 😀

  183. Ratish Philip November 10, 2010 at 9:45 pm

    Seagate has been my first choice for HDD. When I bought my first computer 4.5 years back I had no doubt about which Hard Drive to buy. It is still running strong. And recently when I thought of adding another HDD, it was no doubt a Seagate.
    Congratulations Seagate on achieving such a mindblowing milestone…
    kudos… way to go!

  184. eeprom November 10, 2010 at 9:49 pm

    My journey with Seagate started 15 years back when 20GB was the mainstream storage size. Good enough for Win95, a couple of games and files. It died on bad sectors 6 years later. Now my 1TB Barracuda has less than 20% free space, filled with today’s mega size games, photos, movies, almost hitting the limit for another upgrade. Seagate’s drive might not be the most reliable drive of all, but that’s the HD business model, 5 years down the road you have to upgrade to bigger drive anyway.

  185. ALLEN LUONG November 10, 2010 at 9:51 pm

    2 years(2011 to 2013), 1 Billion drives, 100 Million Terabytes

  186. hasan saqib November 10, 2010 at 9:55 pm

    Hey guys! My seagate from 4 years ago is still going, wanted to say Congratualations.

  187. nunkoo November 10, 2010 at 9:57 pm

    seagate hdd is very good.keep it up you need to reach the 2 billion mark quickly.

  188. Humberto November 10, 2010 at 9:58 pm

    I have always purchased seagate HDD. They just never fail.
    Congratulations seagate!

  189. Anthony Sereduck November 10, 2010 at 10:03 pm

    I’ve been building computers for many years, starting in ’78. I had a Radio Shack TSR80 model 1, then a model 3 & 4. I got an IBM 286 with a whopping 10 meg hard drive Wow!!!! I couldn’t imagine EVER filling that hard drive up to it’s max, but as we know that wouldn’t take much time at all. I really like Seagate drives, they seem to have less problems than WD drives (I didn’t want to say that TOO loudly). Now I have an Intel core 2 Quad 6600 w/4gig ram & 1Tb Seagate drive, but I plan to upgrade to a faster platform with more storage (when I get rich!).

  190. manish November 10, 2010 at 10:04 pm

    congrats..
    being great fan of barracuda series i have always trust on seagate products.hopefully you guys would succeed in hybrid hard disc.

  191. guyfred26 November 10, 2010 at 10:15 pm

    This is sweet. 1.5billion HDD. I still remember that I use a 10GB drive long time ago.I love using Seagate HDD because they last longer than other brand. Im still using my 10GB seagate Hard disk on my Pentium 166 PC. Still works fine up to now. Good job there seagate. Keep up the good work and quality as you always did.

  192. Daniel November 10, 2010 at 10:21 pm

    Great job! I am amazed at the price of storage these days. My first HDD was only 5MB in size and cost over $500. Now I can pick up 2TB of storage for less then $100. The times have certainly changed.

  193. David Kuswanto November 10, 2010 at 10:21 pm

    Astounding! I would love one for my system.

  194. Prasin November 10, 2010 at 10:51 pm

    Its an awesome achievement from the seagate team.. Well done..!!

  195. Jonathan Stewart November 10, 2010 at 10:58 pm

    That is quite the achievement! Doesn’t look like the market is slowing down at all!

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  197. Greg L. November 10, 2010 at 11:06 pm

    2 Million hard drives sold! Congratulations Seagate!

  198. Seth Parker November 10, 2010 at 11:13 pm

    oh happy day!

  199. Johnny Hui November 10, 2010 at 11:26 pm

    Congrats! I love Seagate drives. They gave me the least problem and the most stable over the years.

  200. Dario November 10, 2010 at 11:33 pm

    Congrats!!

  201. Moha November 10, 2010 at 11:42 pm

    I’m glad that I own a drive among those 500 million drives sold in last two years. 🙂

  202. Jeffrey G November 10, 2010 at 11:43 pm

    No wonder Seagate has accomplished such a feat. I only use Seagate drives and only sell them to my customers. They are the most realiable drive out there.

    Bravo Seagate !!

  203. Lee November 10, 2010 at 11:50 pm

    This is thrilling. I love hard drives.

  204. WannaB November 10, 2010 at 11:50 pm

    Wow! Congrats! At this rate you guys will take over the world! Or at least the hard drive world 😉

  205. Alan November 11, 2010 at 12:00 am

    Yes! Congratulations! My two Seagate drives from 8 years ago are still being used today.

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  207. Hassaan November 11, 2010 at 12:04 am

    That’s really an achievement! Congratulations Seagate!

  208. Andre Muller November 11, 2010 at 12:14 am

    And to think 4 of those 1.5 billion are mine. Thanks Seagate. 🙂

  209. James November 11, 2010 at 12:20 am

    It’s incredible how quickly that technology keeps speeding up. 500 million drives in 2.5 years???? Wow, keep up the good work.

  210. Timothy Fritz Cruz November 11, 2010 at 12:25 am

    cheers for the sales. im buying my own external hdd soon. hope it’s as good as the reviews say it is 😉

  211. UNCLERICK666 November 11, 2010 at 12:28 am

    I STARTED WITH ANEGAS AND SCUSI DRIVES.
    AND SINCE MOVING OVER TO A PC I HAVE ONLY USED SEAGATE DRIVES….
    MY FIRST ONES ARE STILL URNING AFTER ALMOST 3 DECADES!

    GREAT GOING SEAGATE!!!!!

  212. febrian November 11, 2010 at 12:30 am

    wow, but i think the next seagate total drive sold will increase exponentially, so within the next 5 year, who knows that seagate will sell more than 4 billion hard drive 😀 hahaha

    seagate deserve it coz they produce the best hard drive i ever use 🙂

  213. Nikita B November 11, 2010 at 12:35 am

    WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW 1.5 billon drives WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!

  214. Max November 11, 2010 at 12:37 am

    Congratulations Seagate on the incredible growth! May your next year be even bigger and better!

  215. Patrick Gerry November 11, 2010 at 12:46 am

    Great Job! Keep up the amazing work Seagate, your drives are the best! I only purchase Seagate products because I know I’m getting quality.

  216. Peter Clarke November 11, 2010 at 1:23 am

    Congrats Segate..I’ve always wanted to try a Segate drive but I’ve been using Samsung for years and never had one failure. I would love a reason to switch and i STILL don’t back up my data. I don’t do things because everyone else does,Although i build computers for people. So for me, If it works I’m all for it. Congratulations again Segate.

  217. christian November 11, 2010 at 1:28 am

    hi il always stay a seagate fan

  218. Stephen November 11, 2010 at 2:00 am

    Wow! Thats a lot of space!
    Watch this space 😉

  219. Mike November 11, 2010 at 2:15 am

    Way to go! I love Seagate, and I always recommend it to my computer clientele. Keep up the good work.

  220. Zelma MacDonald November 11, 2010 at 2:19 am

    Producing a well made product
    is definitely a reason for the company’s success.

  221. Chris Haunch November 11, 2010 at 2:29 am

    Only ever had Seagate in my own built systems and out of the 10’s I’ve had only one has ever failed. Think that was a 3.3gb model. Can’t wait to see the next gen drives

  222. Phill Rogers November 11, 2010 at 3:05 am

    The first hard drive I worked with was just 5MB.
    The pace of evolution in hard disc storage has been astounding and reports of it’s immanent death have been greatly exaggerated on so many occasions.

  223. eralp November 11, 2010 at 3:06 am

    almost the whole universe in the seagate 🙂

  224. Ed November 11, 2010 at 3:25 am

    When it comes to quality and reliability, Seagate’s hard drive disks deliver that. I had my pc for about 4 years now, and Seagate’s HDD has yet to fail on me.

  225. David Lohnes November 11, 2010 at 3:58 am

    Seagate was the first really fast internal hard drive (10,000rpm) I purchased for my video editing. Seagate has always rhymed with quality and dependability. If I remember correctly it was only 150 GB or something like that. I’ve never had a problem with my Seagate drives, and I’m sure that if I pulled this one out of the closet and hooked it up it would still run like a fine tuned top. DLohnes

  226. salami November 11, 2010 at 4:08 am

    keep it up Seagate ! cheers from greece !.

  227. Kirby Kinsch November 11, 2010 at 4:16 am

    Congrats! I love your products!

  228. ravenkin November 11, 2010 at 4:55 am

    Congratulations to Seagate. This was possible because you guys make some amazing hard drives. Without your hard work this wouldn’t have been possible. So again congratulations to Seagate and everyone that works there!

  229. Mike Osmond November 11, 2010 at 5:11 am

    And billions more to come…

  230. customcarvin November 11, 2010 at 5:43 am

    Congrats!

    I’ve definitely helped Seagate over the years in achieving this number; I don’t know exactly how many Seagate drives I own/have owned but I’d have to say over 50. That’s a lot IMO for someone who doesn’t have a small business, and tinkers with PCs as hobby!

  231. Jean Labelle November 11, 2010 at 5:50 am

    WOW, we’ve sure come a long way!
    My first drive was a 40MB running DOS from 5 1/4″ “floppies.
    Congrats on the milestone and keep up the great work!

  232. Commander_Me November 11, 2010 at 6:03 am

    Well, I used to always buy WD harddrives, but I got a seagate one and it is excellent. No going back for me! I’ll happily add to Seagates next 500 millions drives (well 1 of them anyway 🙂 )

  233. danteoz November 11, 2010 at 6:05 am

    A great milestone, I love my 500GB Seagate HDD, still kickin after 4 years!! Never a hiccup!

  234. Alexander Gulik November 11, 2010 at 6:19 am

    Grats!

  235. pgq666 November 11, 2010 at 6:20 am

    There is always a Seagate storing data somewhere in my house. Congrats to you guys for continuing to build quality components great machines are built around.

  236. JoeM November 11, 2010 at 6:27 am

    Congrats on the epic milestone. That’s an amazing amount of drives sold in such a short amount of time. Just goes to show how much data people are storing and how important storage is going to be in the future. I have two Seagate external drives and they’ve been great for backing up photos and important documents.

  237. Jay Lewis November 11, 2010 at 6:42 am

    I remember buying my first Seagate drive around 1988. It was 120MB, and I honestly belived that I would never need another hard drive (LOL!). I have bought many Seagate’s since then and I recommend them to my customers. Congrats to you Seagate, and keep up the good work!

  238. gokica November 11, 2010 at 6:47 am

    Congratulations. Life would be much harder without the Seagate’s innovations and rock solid products. According to my experience Seagate proved to be a provider with most reliable and fast storage solutions. Keep it up guys. Your drives work forever.

  239. Joy November 11, 2010 at 6:49 am

    Here comes the drive

  240. TyDotDo November 11, 2010 at 6:54 am

    We will never have enough hard drives. Keep producing!

  241. Sraddhanjali November 11, 2010 at 7:13 am

    yay! more storage more fun!!congrats seagate!

  242. lovesgate November 11, 2010 at 7:14 am

    I most likely have contributed to 0.0008 percent of those numbers!!

  243. Gaurav R November 11, 2010 at 7:17 am

    The first drive I bought (internal) for the first PC I was building with my own hard earned money was a Seagate. So too were the next few. Until I got an external WD drive, which eventually crapped out and I replaced it with a proper Seagate Freeagent 250GB that has served me faithfully ever since. It is indeed remarkable that you’ve grown so fast and so quick but more so that the types of storage and capacity are changing so rapidly. Who knows what we will be putting our data on another 5 years from now.

  244. Steven Becker November 11, 2010 at 7:18 am

    Those statistics are staggering. I drove by the campus on a recent visit to Minneapolis and pondered how Seagate is doing. I guess this answers my question.

  245. Offordef November 11, 2010 at 7:23 am

    Still have a 20GB 7200 IDE drive going strong and my notebook loves your Momentus XT.
    For me Seagate is the True King of Magnetic Storage.
    3 Billion drives on 22 April 2012 😉 ?

  246. Furball November 11, 2010 at 7:23 am

    Congrats Seagate! My first hard drive was only 20MB, and it was HUGE! 😛

  247. Chuckie Delano November 11, 2010 at 7:41 am

    Congrats on helping us save our electronic media on bigger and bigger drives. Look forward to the next 1.5 billion drives.

  248. rajesh November 11, 2010 at 7:42 am

    Congrats to seagate for this landmark. I wish they reach 2 billion land mark much before their expection.

  249. Kenneth November 11, 2010 at 7:45 am

    Congratulations! Keep making quality products and I’m sure the 2 billion milestone will be here even quicker.

  250. jessica November 11, 2010 at 7:46 am

    amazing contest!

  251. Joshua Butner November 11, 2010 at 7:46 am

    Whoa! Congratulations!!!! that is amazing!

  252. MM November 11, 2010 at 7:48 am

    Congratulations Seagate! I know you make quality products and this is only proof of that. Way to go!

  253. Shane November 11, 2010 at 7:48 am

    All it took was one Seagate hard drive and one Western Digital hard drive. After it was always Seagate hard drives.

  254. raed November 11, 2010 at 7:50 am

    Did you say a free GoFlex 1.5TB hard drive? 🙂

  255. Brian Norrgard November 11, 2010 at 7:54 am

    Wow! That’s quite a bit of total storage. Keep up the good work. I bet you break 2 million drives in less than 2 years.

  256. Brian Lee November 11, 2010 at 8:00 am

    I have been a loyal fan of the Seagate Momentus G series mobile hdd’s and glad to see such an achievement! congrats Seagate!

  257. Flip November 11, 2010 at 8:02 am

    Keep those drives coming, congratulations!

  258. Dallas November 11, 2010 at 8:05 am

    I need to add a few 2 TB drives to my RAID 5 system. 🙂

  259. Daniel November 11, 2010 at 8:09 am

    Congrats on selling 1.5 billion drives. Millions are pretty impressive but 1.5 billion? 500M in less than 2 years? Amazing!

  260. Jeff R November 11, 2010 at 8:15 am

    Congratulations!

  261. Walter Poole November 11, 2010 at 8:20 am

    My Seagate makes me HAPPY!

  262. Levar November 11, 2010 at 8:24 am

    thats an amazing milestone, though its not surprising I mean.. come on you make some of the best external drives I’ve ever used!

  263. Vrmithrax November 11, 2010 at 8:26 am

    Way to go on the 1.5 billion milesone! Seagate has pretty much always been my go-to brand for hard drives. Been using them since the 80s!

  264. T_r_nelson November 11, 2010 at 8:27 am

    Not to suck up, but I’ve always been a Seagate lover. The first drives I picked up in the mid-90’s was a whopping 160MB drive. At that time, it was huge. I thought I’d never fill that up.

    I was a wee-bit off on that one.

  265. Vaneera November 11, 2010 at 8:27 am

    That is amazing! You can not live in jungle without a cave and Seagate have a lot of caves to save the world (a whole lot of data to save).

  266. Raventrickster November 11, 2010 at 8:28 am

    I have a 250GB Seagate FreeAgent drive so the upgrade to a 1.5 TB drive would be pretty sweet. Right now I’m sitting on the limits of the drive at times to get in all of the virtual images I need for school. I also have a couple of Seagate desktop drives and to date I have yet to have any drive failures from any Seagate drive. Go Seagate, congrats on 1.5 Billion drives shipped.

  267. Marc November 11, 2010 at 8:47 am

    Congratulations seagate! i work as an IT consultant and insist on selling your drives! I love them and especially your Seatools app! here’s to another 1.5 billion.

    Cheers

  268. mguy November 11, 2010 at 8:52 am

    Congratulations! 15.8 Zettabytes per year – cool.

  269. Bruno November 11, 2010 at 8:53 am

    That’s a great number, congratulations! Hope soon we hear you are selling the billionth SSD drive too.

  270. john jameson November 11, 2010 at 8:53 am

    With all this space, what do I store?

  271. Corey Brown November 11, 2010 at 9:07 am

    Congratulations and continued success

  272. Jeremy November 11, 2010 at 9:14 am

    1.5 billion is a incredible achievement at this rate 2 billion wont be far off congratz Seagate

  273. WDV November 11, 2010 at 9:17 am

    I want one!

  274. Chadthomas31 November 11, 2010 at 9:22 am

    If you laid all of the Seagate drives end to end how far would they stretch??? way to go Seagate, knock it out of the park!!

  275. Oliver November 11, 2010 at 9:24 am

    Awesome, I love my seagate HDs.

  276. Gary Louden November 11, 2010 at 9:26 am

    Well done, great drives. Only ever use Seagate or Samsung.

  277. Joshua November 11, 2010 at 9:28 am

    cool man!

  278. Rodger November 11, 2010 at 9:35 am

    Outstanding! My Barracuda’s are rockin’ and I have not hesitated to recommend your products to everyone.

  279. Bill November 11, 2010 at 9:37 am

    Congrats on selling 1.5 billion drives. That number is quite mind boggling!

  280. DanB November 11, 2010 at 9:41 am

    Congratulations Seagate. However, I hate to rain on the parade, but although the blog post says “At this rate, the 2 Billion drives milestone will happen in the next 2 years”, I predict a slowing of drive/TB consumption from now on.

    In the last 2.5 years, 500 million drives were sold, equal to almost half the Terabyte total of the previous 29-year period – but over that short 2.5 year period, at a consumer-level we’ve gone from affordable 250GB-500GB drives to affordable 1.0, 1.5 and even 2TB drives. That’s 2, 3, 4 times the storage capacity previously considered ‘normal’ for home-use but the thing nobody seems to ask is: “Do most of us really NEED that much storage capacity?”

    The answer is “No, we don’t”. We’re simply buying the ‘large’ drives because they’re dirt cheap compared with drive prices in the past, we’re buying them because we’re upgrading old previous-generation or older computers (meaning we now have systems that won’t need upgrading/replacing again for 5-10 years) and we’re buying the drives as storage for video-game consoles, as PVR-extenders and as central home network back-up/servers (which we only need 1 of).

    So if the ‘large’ drives we’ve just recently bought are reliable then we won’t be needing to buy more storage for quite some time.

    May future history show that my prediction was wrong.

    .. In the meantime, I’ve got 5 computers, a PVR with a built-in hard drive and a video game with external USB drive, and I’ve yet to break past the 320GB mark on any single drive. But, I’m planning to, by the year’s end. Hey Seagate, want to help me break my 1.0TB cherry?!

  281. Adil November 11, 2010 at 9:44 am

    here is to another 1.5 billion

  282. Mimx November 11, 2010 at 9:50 am

    Congratulations on your milestone! Seagate has always been my drive of choice. Keep up the good work!

  283. Ray Bayles November 11, 2010 at 9:52 am

    Congratulations, Seagate.
    Have a house behind you (west)in Scotts Valley.
    We have used Seagate for 70 percent of our hard drives over the past 15 years… because we don’t have to expect our clients and repairs to come back on us. We have now installed way over 1350 Seagate drives in customer desktops and laptops.
    Problems have been substantially lower than with any other drive manufacturer, and when there is a problem, resolution is quicker and more fair.
    Nobody makes a better hard drive than Seagate! Nobody gives better service.

  284. Charlie November 11, 2010 at 10:05 am

    Well you guys must be doing something right :P. My next hdd might even be a Seagate :D.

  285. Shane November 11, 2010 at 10:05 am

    Slogan
    Seagate: keeping your adult collection growing and growing and growing….

  286. Frederic November 11, 2010 at 10:12 am

    Congratulations Seagate!! awesome achievement. Hope the good products keep rolling.

  287. Roel November 11, 2010 at 10:17 am

    Way to go seagate. Keep up the great work. Up to 2 billion.

  288. Mike. C. November 11, 2010 at 10:19 am

    79 Million terabytes worth of drives is hard to comprehend congrats and hope they make it 2 billion drives no 3 billion!

  289. cemp November 11, 2010 at 10:21 am

    6 out of 1.5 Billion were mine 🙂

  290. Broot November 11, 2010 at 10:30 am

    Glad to see such an achievement. Look forward to bigger & better. Congrats

  291. Ken Wagner November 11, 2010 at 10:36 am

    Congrats to Seagate! They’ve probably been my favorite hard drive manufacturer since the late 80’s.

  292. Vivek November 11, 2010 at 10:40 am

    Congrats on this milestone!

  293. Sachin November 11, 2010 at 10:46 am

    Keep the good work , you are the top in the HDD manufacturer.

  294. ruraj November 11, 2010 at 10:49 am

    A history with Seagate…
    1990 2000 2004 2005 2009
    2GB -> 20GB -> 40GB -> 80GB -> 360GB
    ever expanding need of space…never ending, like seagate, i hope!

  295. ruraj November 11, 2010 at 10:56 am

    and 1TB waiting to join the line….2010 !!

  296. Daniel Leibowitz November 11, 2010 at 11:05 am

    Wow, that’s incredible. Seems like the hard drive industry is booming…definitely helped by the cheaper prices :). Congrats Seagate! 🙂

  297. Scott November 11, 2010 at 11:09 am

    Awesome!! Best drives on the market and from a great company as well!!

  298. Bill Nash November 11, 2010 at 11:15 am

    I’m proud to be a customer and that you’re still in business to provide!

  299. Stefan DiMauro November 11, 2010 at 12:26 pm

    Congratulations on the 1.5 billion mark! Love your product line. Keep up with the good work!

  300. Geoff November 11, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    2 billion won’t be far off!!

  301. Vince November 11, 2010 at 1:13 pm

    Wow! It’s amazing that 500 million more drives have been sold since I started using Seagate in 08′. Bravo!

  302. Robert Scott November 11, 2010 at 1:18 pm

    I’ve been using Seagate HDD’s since well, before Full Height/Full Size SCSI Drives @ a whopping 800 MB became popular… Still have one tho I don’t know if it works… Sounded like a Jet Turbine warming up on the Tarmac when you fired it up! We all have came along way since then, now that I have 2.8 TB of Seagate drives I still want more! Keep up the GREAT work!!!

  303. Darryl Yoder November 11, 2010 at 1:32 pm

    I have never used anything other than seagate, and I never will. I’ve never had a single issue, my dad however has has tons with his… M@xt0r. Yeah lets pretend they never existed.

  304. Martin November 11, 2010 at 1:33 pm

    Congrats on reaching 1.5 billion so quickly! Seagate has been my sole hard drive manufacturer of choice for the past decade, clearly you guys know what you’re doing. Keep it up!

  305. Ashton K November 11, 2010 at 2:23 pm

    With the cost/gigabyte, and overall capacities increasing at the rate they have been, I can only see these rates ballooning further.

  306. Jason November 11, 2010 at 2:25 pm

    Great work Seagate. Keep up the good work and support. LEts make it 2.5B really soon 🙂

  307. Saad Saif November 11, 2010 at 2:35 pm

    Congrats, I love Seagate.

  308. Steve Eric November 11, 2010 at 2:36 pm

    This is a true milestone and shows how quickly computers changed society. I remember way back when you were considered a nerd for even looking at a computer. It use to be talking about how much horsepower is under the hood. Now we talk about the hardware in the box.

  309. Matt7 November 11, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    Neat!

  310. Bruno November 11, 2010 at 4:21 pm

    Great job seagate, hope you continue selling that nice, cheap and fast hds we all love. Cheers!!!

  311. Jim Squirrel November 11, 2010 at 4:23 pm

    Woo hoo. 1.5 billion drives= a lot of happy customers!!

  312. archana November 11, 2010 at 4:46 pm

    congrats on reaching this milestone.

  313. The Luo official melts November 11, 2010 at 4:49 pm

    Congratulate~hope to win an award

  314. Janet November 11, 2010 at 4:52 pm

    I’d like to think I helped you reach that huge milestone number (I type as I stare at an external Seagate drive that’s sitting next to my computer). Congratulations, Seagate!

  315. jazboy November 11, 2010 at 4:53 pm

    Congats Seagate. Wish you best of luck to reach another milestone sooner than expected.

  316. JAMES BAILEY November 11, 2010 at 5:12 pm

    Seagate has proven to be consistent in performance and dependability . I prefer to use their products in all our computers.

  317. P. H. November 11, 2010 at 5:16 pm

    I would love to be counted as one who has one of the 1.5 Billion or so.

  318. Michael Olavarria November 11, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    That’s amazing; congratulations, Seagate! Seems like a kind of Moore’s law in action, no? 29 years to sell 1 billion, 2 years to sell .5 billion. Maybe Seagate will sell its next .5 billion in 1 year? 6 months? 🙂

  319. David November 11, 2010 at 6:00 pm

    Congrats, that’s a lot of HDD served!

  320. Michael H November 11, 2010 at 6:09 pm

    Best drives on the market and from a great company as well! I’m proud to be a customer

  321. Lance November 11, 2010 at 6:09 pm

    Great work Seagate, keep crankin out those great drives!

  322. Leland November 11, 2010 at 6:17 pm

    I remember my first hard drive was a 20MB Seagate drive I affectionately called the Sea Crate. It was not to fast and was somewhat big and bulky but it worked well. Nice milestone.

  323. Manny Peters November 11, 2010 at 6:29 pm

    Wow. That’s a lot of bits and bytes. I just purchased a nice 2Tb Expansion external to keep my FreeAgent Pro company while they do backups.

    Congrats Seagate!

  324. illyw November 11, 2010 at 6:31 pm

    Great job! Buy buy buy!

  325. Fred November 11, 2010 at 6:36 pm

    I’m proud of myself for helping you reach that milestone, with my seagate drive purchases 🙂

  326. Jonathan November 11, 2010 at 7:56 pm

    That’s ALOT of drives to sell…and alot of money was made in the process I would assume. An epic milestone nonetheless.

  327. David S November 11, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    I only wish other things could be as reliable. Congrats on giving us both quality, and quaint.

  328. Wesley November 11, 2010 at 9:03 pm

    congrats! excellent job!

  329. Hugo November 11, 2010 at 11:02 pm

    I purchase 5 f those terabytes to back up my family data.

    Awesome Drives!!!

    : )

  330. Carissa Kasper November 11, 2010 at 11:46 pm

    Congrats! Thanks for passing the charm on!

  331. Sakis November 12, 2010 at 12:04 am

    Congratulations, Seagate!
    I’m a proud owner of too many of your hard drives and a byuer of many many more of them since my envolvement in the IT sector.

  332. Elense November 12, 2010 at 12:44 am

    Perfect, i got three disks my own, they are well used and kept safety. wish more and more disks Q’ty sold and got good response from market and end users.
    Well done!!!Seagate….

  333. Tom Olexa November 12, 2010 at 4:02 am

    Congratulations Seagate, that is really impressive! Great work!

  334. jasonleon November 12, 2010 at 4:32 am

    Awesome news Seagate! Here’s to another billion HDDs.

  335. Chris November 12, 2010 at 4:42 am

    Wow. I don’t think there is 1,2Trillion hours of music in the world. Congratulations. Hope you double it up soon

  336. Beck November 12, 2010 at 5:53 am

    What a great milestone! I believe 2 Billon drives will be sold in 2011.

  337. Maria November 12, 2010 at 6:34 am

    Congrats on reaching 1.5 BILLION drives and counting! WOW, I didn’t even know Seagate went as far back as 1979! What a huge milestone. Being in the business that long and still continuing to expand your market is a feat in and of itself.

    Well done Seagate. May you continue to push forward and be DRIVEn to better yourself and your products to keep your customers coming back!

  338. jan arcinue November 12, 2010 at 8:11 am

    this is unfair. seagate could not have reached 1.5billion drives without all the shipments to non-US countries. and this giveaway is not available for non-US residents.

    give some love for us foreigners.. shame on you seagate!

    • Mark Wojtasiak November 12, 2010 at 12:45 pm

      @jan arcinue Hi Jan. Thanks for the comment and for reading the blog. Where are you located? I know that due to legal constraints contests tend to be localized. Given that, we do run contests in multiple countries, so be sure to follow Seagate’s regional twitter accounts for more details. Thanks again!

      @Seagate_emea (UK)
      @Seagate_fr (France)
      @Seagate_de (Germany)
      @Seagate_ru (Russia)
      @Seagate_au (Australia)
      @Seagate_kr (Korea)
      @Seagate_in (India)

  339. Brian November 12, 2010 at 9:45 am

    Wow, that’s a lot of drives…

  340. Henry November 12, 2010 at 10:34 am

    With Seagate’s high reliability and good warranty, don’t be surprised to surpass the same stats in a year’s time. Congratulations!

  341. […] embargo, han estado tan ocupados que la compañía casi se olvida de celebrar su disco duro numero 1.500.000.000. Este hito se logro el 20 de octubre, solo dos años y medio después de llegar al disco numero […]

  342. Mimi November 12, 2010 at 12:16 pm

    That is phenomenal! It’s hard to wrap my mind around all those numbers. Pretty staggering. Congrats on your sales.

  343. Andrew November 12, 2010 at 12:16 pm

    If all of these drives were gathered into one place, how much space would they take up, and how much would they weigh?

  344. maddwoodsman November 12, 2010 at 12:18 pm

    Congrats. I love Seagate!

  345. Schroeder November 12, 2010 at 12:39 pm

    Seagate Da Bomb!

  346. Wendy R November 12, 2010 at 12:42 pm

    I was looking to buy one of a Seagate Go Flex 1.5 HD so thank you for the chance to win here. I’m a huge fan of Seagate. This is bigger than McD’s! lol Congratulations on the milestone.

  347. Gavin Bamber November 12, 2010 at 1:26 pm

    I could use one, so if I don’t win it, I’ll have to buy it!

  348. Carl Harbeck November 12, 2010 at 1:56 pm

    Love my Seagate drives!

  349. Janine Gabriel November 12, 2010 at 2:51 pm

    why a picture of mcdonalds?

    • Mark Wojtasiak November 12, 2010 at 3:22 pm

      @Janine Gabriel a play on Billions and Billions served… thanks for commenting!

  350. Aubrie McGibbon November 12, 2010 at 3:50 pm

    There is only one option for me when it comes to external hard drives. The chance to win one is just gravy. Congrats on the achievement and milestone. Those are some pretty sweet accolades!

  351. Simon Yolk November 12, 2010 at 4:14 pm

    I always used Seagate, then tried WD for a while. Not happy with their performance and failure rate, I am happy to say I am back using SEAGATE for good!

    It’s nice to know that your data is safer with Seagate.

  352. Kelly Roser November 12, 2010 at 5:19 pm

    Always a fan. From my first ST-225, to my newest 500 GByte monster!
    25 years! Bet my old 20 Mega Byte ST-506 interface (remember those?) drives would still work!

  353. Peter R November 12, 2010 at 6:05 pm

    My experience with Seagate products has always been a good one.No surprise on the milestone ..Awesome ! and a chance to win too.

  354. roger shipplett November 12, 2010 at 7:27 pm

    congrats!

  355. Jan Werner November 12, 2010 at 7:45 pm

    What a long way from my first ST-506 nearly 30 years ago.

  356. Ben November 12, 2010 at 7:51 pm

    I hope I am one of the lucky ones.
    Good luck to all!

  357. Frank Cook November 12, 2010 at 8:34 pm

    cool milestone guys

  358. Russell Rucinski November 12, 2010 at 9:10 pm

    My first external was a Seagate, and it still works great. Great play on words, with the billions and billions served.

  359. dos equis November 12, 2010 at 10:10 pm

    the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

  360. Ichad November 12, 2010 at 11:19 pm

    Wow, congratulation to seagate..

  361. Ichad November 12, 2010 at 11:22 pm

    wow congrats to seagate, i use it (from Indonesia)

  362. Iecur November 13, 2010 at 12:17 am

    Just don’t start printing something like the McDonald’s sign on your boxes, haha.

  363. Mohd. Noor November 13, 2010 at 12:56 am

    my first pc in 2001 had an seagate hd and when i upgraded my sys. i installed 80gb hd in 2007.

  364. Rajeev Ranjan November 13, 2010 at 12:58 am

    I havre been using the Seagate external device,its really nice to keep the data safe

  365. Carla November 13, 2010 at 5:22 am

    wowwww…congratulations!!!

  366. Paul Barber November 13, 2010 at 6:37 am

    Can iI have one please?

  367. Sonny L.A. November 13, 2010 at 8:03 am

    Hopefully Seagate to make HDD with a capacity greater than that already exist until now. For an “otakku” like me 2 or 3 TB is still lacking. After all, congratulations guys on achieving production of 1.5 million seagate hard drive.

    And don’t forget the Asian market. They grow rapidly and I think it’s great for Seagate to get more serious there. Hopefully you target, 2 million hard drives immediately reached. 🙂

  368. Janice November 13, 2010 at 9:01 am

    That’s a lot of drives!

  369. Rob Getz November 13, 2010 at 10:09 am

    Seagate products Rock !!! I have replaved many near new WD drives after they crash, then the seagate drives have never crashed on me yet.

    THANKS SEAGATE FOR A WONDERFUL PRODUCT!!!!

  370. Christian Illes November 13, 2010 at 10:52 am

    Sign me up! I would love a 1.5TB hard drive addition! I love your hard drives!

  371. jeff November 13, 2010 at 12:42 pm

    Congrats on your milestone great job, keep it up and i hope to upgrade to one of your 1t or higher HD’S better than what i have now.

  372. Penelope ONeil November 13, 2010 at 1:56 pm

    I love Seagate. We have 4 computers and when 1 crashed I researched hard drives to replace it and decided that Seagate was the one to buy. Now the computer runs wonderfully and I have no problems. If I have any future problems with the other computers I will not hesitate to buy a Seagate hard drive again. Thanks Seagate for making it easy for me.

  373. Johannah B November 13, 2010 at 2:11 pm

    Congrats ~ yes everyone needs more storage these days, and so why not a Seagate. I am happy to see that your hard work all these years has transformed into so many happy users!

  374. Tim November 13, 2010 at 4:20 pm

    Congratulations Seagate!! I’ve had one of your drives since I started computing, and all have worked flawlessly!!

    Here’s to 2, then 3 billion drives sold!!

  375. Oliver Brentnall November 13, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    Can’t say ive a huge amount of Seagate drives but do hold them in very high regard. Always my first or second choice when buying new drives!

  376. Luis Espinoza November 13, 2010 at 7:36 pm

    Would love to have this. My first computer ever had a Seagate hard drive, only 20GBs, but still works.

  377. Kam Parbhakar November 13, 2010 at 10:57 pm

    Wow, that’s an amazing fact. Congrats, Seagate!

  378. Duuuude November 13, 2010 at 11:26 pm

    # 500 Million drives
    # 39.5 Million Terabytes

    that makes approx ~80gb / drive. Must obviously be a typo since we are talking about 2008-2010 here! People didn’t buy harddrives with an average size that small the past two years! Should probably be 395M Terabyte.

  379. RAUL BENTANCUR November 14, 2010 at 3:32 am

    HOLA GENTE FELICITACIONES POR EL LOGRO RECIBIDO YO EN LA ACTUALIDAD ME ES IMPOSIBLE GUARDAR TANTA MUSICA QUE TENGO COMO DJ EN UN DISCO DE 1 TB YA QUE NESITARIA POR LO MENOS 10 DISCOS DE ESOS PARA ANDAR MAS O MENOS BIEN PERO TENGO 2 DE 1 TB DONDE TENGO LOS VIDEOS Y PASO ACTUALMENTE MUSICA CON ESO,ME ENCANTARIA ENTRAR EN EL SORTEO POR EL DE 1,5 TB,GRACIAS Y A VER CUANDO INVETAMOS EL DE 10 TB.SUERTE
    RAUL BENTANCUR, ARGENTINA, SANTA FE, FRANCK, SARMIENTO 1495, CODIGO POSTAL 3009

  380. Antuaneth November 14, 2010 at 5:01 am

    Congratulations! this is very impressive. I don’t have your product at home yet.

  381. Alexandra November 14, 2010 at 5:02 am

    Congrats! I am a customer myself! Keep up the good work!

  382. bilal ünüvar November 14, 2010 at 8:13 am

    Seagate a really professional.

  383. Gilbert November 14, 2010 at 10:49 am

    1TB = 1, 649, 267, 444, 664 bytes

    I could use that space@!!

  384. Rob Myers November 14, 2010 at 10:58 am

    I’m a poor poor student and need an audio drive for my work.

  385. George X November 14, 2010 at 11:22 am

    I love my Seagate drives (both internal and external). I have had mine for quite a while and I am still relying on them to store and backup all my data because I know they are dependable. Way to go Seagate!

  386. Willie Dillon November 14, 2010 at 4:33 pm

    That’s pretty dang amazing. Nice job, Seagate!

  387. Josh Acton November 14, 2010 at 5:38 pm

    well then.. who wouldn’t like to win a hard drive 😀

  388. Deborah November 14, 2010 at 7:46 pm

    I’ve been hearing about these from
    Ben Spark and am really loving the idea for our house!

  389. Lisa Hallman November 14, 2010 at 7:46 pm

    Always known to be good drives, that’s why you’ve lasted this long. Would love the extra storage. 🙂

  390. Feng Guan November 14, 2010 at 8:06 pm

    Seagate drives are good

  391. deb pfeiffer November 14, 2010 at 8:18 pm

    Perfect timing!
    Comparing drives to decide what to buy; this win could solve all my confusion.
    BTW – Congratulations!

  392. Artur Wrona November 14, 2010 at 8:33 pm

    Congratulations! hope you reach 2b mark faster 😉

  393. bluevektor November 14, 2010 at 8:39 pm

    I have a great Seagate external hard drive. It’s been awesome. Congratulations to Seagate for their milestone. Keep up the quality production!

  394. Greg Orszulak November 14, 2010 at 8:41 pm

    I’d love another seagate external drive to attach to my router, it’d bring up to 3TB 😀

  395. cckly November 14, 2010 at 8:47 pm

    Seagate is winner

  396. Kyle O'Halloran November 14, 2010 at 8:57 pm

    I would rather have 1.5 billion hard drives, but I suppose I could make due with 1! 😀

    Are GoFlex drives internal or external?

  397. Donald Campbell November 14, 2010 at 9:26 pm

    I’d take a Seagate hard drive platter over one from McDonalds any day. 🙂

  398. Jason Tran November 14, 2010 at 9:41 pm

    Seagate has powered my computer and many other computers I have built. Congrats on 1.5 billion!

  399. Patrick November 14, 2010 at 9:44 pm

    Incredible really! I remember paying a couple hundred dollars for a 500 MEGABYTE hard drive! Ugh, those were the days. :]

  400. alisa November 14, 2010 at 10:17 pm

    This number is indicative of the quality of your product.

  401. Richard Chong November 14, 2010 at 11:38 pm

    I love Seagate drives!

  402. Jason Mak November 15, 2010 at 1:33 am

    That’s a whole lotta seagates drives sold

  403. JAG November 15, 2010 at 4:52 am

    118.5 million terabytes.

    700,000+ movies on imdb.

    Blu-rays are 20-30GB each call it 25.

    25 x 700,000 = 17,500,000 GB or 17,500 TB, not even a fraction of the amount of drives that seagate has sold.

    What percentage of movies/music/books do you think are cataloged on Seagate’s 1.5billion drives?

    That’s a lot of data.

  404. Sirrobin4ever November 15, 2010 at 6:18 am

    Seagate > Everybody else.

    Just sayin’.

    That said, I need more space…where’s my 7200 RPM 3TB drive?

  405. Borneon November 15, 2010 at 8:57 am

    Kyle O’Halloran, Goflex is external drive

  406. rick November 15, 2010 at 12:07 pm

    Now that’s a lot of drives. Would you like fries with that?

  407. chris freepartner November 15, 2010 at 12:18 pm

    When you make a quality product, the market responds. Easy.

  408. Francis Koziolek November 15, 2010 at 12:19 pm

    Seagate – Great drives!!!! Congrats on the number – HUGE!!!!!!

  409. Elaine Kontra November 15, 2010 at 12:19 pm

    I all sounds great, but I love having a spare Seagate drive to back up my computer stuff.

  410. Ryan November 15, 2010 at 1:24 pm

    Over the years, out of the many drives I’ve worked with either personally or in client PCs, servers and workstations, Seagate has by far had the fewest occurrences of failure. I can’t actually recall an instance where I had to replace a Seagate drive.

    Thanks for the years of reliability and congratulations on 1.5 billion!

  411. Kyle November 15, 2010 at 1:25 pm

    Seagate is my choice for hard drives!

  412. Ryan Campbell November 15, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    I have been using Seagate drives for a long time. I always recommend them, too. Seagate has never let me down 🙂

  413. Zeev Gur November 15, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    Seagate is an incredible organization

  414. Cameron Murphy November 15, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    When possible I always buy seagate…bought 15 WD drives recently and had 3 of them die less than 12 hours after installation. Never had that happen with seagate.

  415. Joshua Flores November 15, 2010 at 1:58 pm

    Seagate is by far my favorite brand of external hard drives. I have a FreeAgent Go 500GB and I love it. I would love a 1.5TB drive to put all my movies, tv shows, podcasts, photos, games, and music on.

  416. Akos November 15, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    I have a 6 year old 320GB drive, and it has working perfectly, great numbers, Seagate.

  417. Nicolas Bell November 15, 2010 at 2:06 pm

    Great work to everybody worldwide at Seagate for bring out awesome stuff .. Thank you so much

  418. Nino Ramton Nacionales November 15, 2010 at 2:07 pm

    Learned so much from my 1st Seagate 1.7GB back in 98 and now I’m enjoying my Seagate 1TB. I would say It was quite a long journey of learning things with my SEAGATE.

  419. Jeremy K November 15, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    Seagate = Quality.
    Great article and the stats are unreal..but says a lot on how fast technology is moving in the world. Looking forward to my next Seagate purchase.

  420. Joshua Ohm November 15, 2010 at 2:10 pm

    It’s really amazing to see how almost every aspect of technology has such rapid, exponential growth like that.

    Man, I love technology.

  421. LoDA November 15, 2010 at 2:12 pm

    seagate’s after sales support is fast, and i like that

  422. susan November 15, 2010 at 2:19 pm

    Wow ~ that’s a lot! I know how precious our “data” is to us so I can see why so many are bought.

  423. James November 15, 2010 at 2:34 pm

    This is pretty awesome.

  424. HQuicksilver November 15, 2010 at 2:44 pm

    I will never buy anything but a seagate hard drive again.

  425. Jazz290 November 15, 2010 at 2:46 pm

    I’ll go put the champagne on ice…

  426. Adam Burkowski November 15, 2010 at 2:48 pm

    There can be only one. Seagate is on the way there.

  427. Rajeev November 15, 2010 at 2:53 pm

    With the staggering number of drives shipped and the pace of growth, its a catalyst for growth in the world of technology that touches almost every aspect of today’s world. Seagate ought to be a mind-share in storage business. Shall we say ‘Storage = Seagate’.

  428. tawney November 15, 2010 at 3:05 pm

    The drives you sold to reach 1 billion were great advertisements for that next 500 million – can you say Snowball!

  429. Eric November 15, 2010 at 3:06 pm

    Wow, that’s a lot. Hope to win a drive.

  430. Carissa Kasper November 15, 2010 at 3:13 pm

    Congrats! I love your product!

  431. Jon Worrel November 15, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    Thanks for the opportunity Seagate!

  432. kevin November 15, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    seagate pwnz wd.

  433. Tom November 15, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    good job.. i love seagate drives.. they are all i sell

  434. Greg November 15, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    1.5 Billion Seagate drives for 6 Billion people – that’s 1/4 Seagate drive per person, on the average. Personally, I own about 50 Seagate drives, give or take, more than from all other drive manufacturers combined. And I have encountered very few failures among the Seagate drives. Cannot even remember when the last one failed.

  435. Gregory Lewis November 15, 2010 at 3:46 pm

    cool, lots of drives sold

  436. David Phok November 15, 2010 at 3:47 pm

    I love Seagate!! can’t wait to get another one on Black friday.
    -David

  437. Ches November 15, 2010 at 3:54 pm

    I have been using Seagate drives since the PCjrs got the capability. If I remember right the 10mb version was rockin 🙂 Most of my builds since a 286 (with turbo button :)) have had Seagate drives. Intel Pentium Pro with dual Seagate UWSCSI drives :). Anyways congrats on the milestone!

  438. Jay Morris November 15, 2010 at 4:00 pm

    Congrats! I love my old one, but I could use a a new bigger one!

  439. Rodrigo Osorio November 15, 2010 at 4:02 pm

    It’s mind boggling what Seagate has accomplished thus far, and I can’t wait to see what comes next. I’ve had stellar experience with Seagate products, and if anything, they’re the secret to the longevity of my notebook computer. Congrats Seagate; keep it up.

  440. Beth November 15, 2010 at 4:05 pm

    I love how math like that works. Nerdy? Probably but that earns my paycheck!
    Congratulations!

  441. Brian November 15, 2010 at 4:07 pm

    Congrats. Great giveaway to celebrate your success!

  442. heagan bayles November 15, 2010 at 4:22 pm

    Not just a billion drives, a billion of the best drives!

  443. John Carroz November 15, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    Awesome milestone!

  444. steffen November 15, 2010 at 6:18 pm

    Congratulations!

  445. Alvin Ng November 15, 2010 at 7:35 pm

    Wow, that really shows the success of SeaGate! Though I can’t say one company is better than the other since I’ve seen drives from all companies fail at some point, I can say the warranties provided and the warranty service provided by Seagate make them a clear winner!

  446. Thomas Hansen November 15, 2010 at 8:13 pm

    That’s pretty awesome!

  447. rajotte November 15, 2010 at 8:34 pm

    wow, I owned 3 harddrives from your company they all worked like horses. I had no idea how many you had sold. Impressive

  448. Saurabh November 15, 2010 at 9:21 pm

    Awesome products and great after sales services from Seagate. The HD Media Players too 🙂 Seagate ftw!

  449. Phillip Baines November 15, 2010 at 9:51 pm

    rock on

  450. shah manshadi November 15, 2010 at 9:57 pm

    seagate drives are the best

  451. ian k November 16, 2010 at 9:32 am

    Congrats Seagate! It is amazing how fast tech really changes. I still remeber getting my first two gig drive from you and just thinking “wow, what am i going to do with all that space. ” Now I have more RAM than that in my computer.

  452. Lucero November 16, 2010 at 10:55 am

    Very appropriate image for this post, LOL! It is simply incredible that you were able to sell half a billion drives in 2.5 years. Your next goal – to have as many drives sold as there are people in the world. Now get to it! 😛

    Thanks for all these years of service and for keeping our computers running and loaded to the gills with all the stuff we love to save.

  453. Jasper November 16, 2010 at 12:47 pm

    Great milestone,
    Storage become more and more important these days

  454. Steve November 16, 2010 at 1:34 pm

    Keep up the great work Seagate!

  455. Ahmad G. November 16, 2010 at 1:34 pm

    Way to go Seagate! My very first drive was a Seagate and it worked great! Keep up the good work

  456. Mike November 16, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    Congrats! Great news!

  457. Danny November 16, 2010 at 5:47 pm

    SeagateROCK !!!

  458. Elaine Beierbach November 16, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    I cou;dn’t wat to win one, so went shopping! Great products!

  459. Geoffery Mangalam November 16, 2010 at 8:22 pm

    Makes me feel proud to be part of the Seagate family!!

  460. Micole Tan November 17, 2010 at 9:53 am

    go seagate!

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