Seagate is celebrating 30 years in the storage device industry. That’s quite an achievement in one of the most dynamic and competitive industries in existence.
How did we get here?
Seagate 1.0 – the Megabyte Era
These were heady times. Seagate was the pioneer, the first with a 5 1/4″ disk drive, just in time for the massive IBM PC ramp.
The first Seagate drive had 5 MB. One Seagate engineer at the time was discouraged from joining the company by a colleague because he couldn’t see how anyone could need 10 MB in a disk drive.
Seagate 2.0 – The Gigabyte Era
The drive industry changed in the 90’s as drive volumes shot through the roof. There was massive consolidation, but Seagate navigated it with massive innovation – as much in its automated factories as in its industry-leading drive technology.
Seagate 3.0 – The Terabyte Era
And here we are today. Storage devices show no sign of slowing down in either what they can do or where they go. Disk drives will continue their advance, along with new technologies like solid state drives (SSDs). Seagate is poised to be at the center of it all yet again.
It’s been a bumpy ride the past year, but what else is new? Seagate has found a way time and time again to regroup, innovate, and execute.
Few expected to see such strong results from Seagate just a few short months ago. Anyone who had taken a close look at this industry and what Seagate has achieved through it all might have changed their minds.
I’m looking forward to the Petabyte Era!
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