Today in 2008, Seagate announced that it has shipped one billion hard drives since its founding in 1979, becoming the first hard drive manufacturer to reach the milestone. All told, the drives which it has already shipped would have a total capacity of roughly 79 million terabytes.
In 2008, Seagate’s 3.5” Barracuda 7200.11 at 1.5 terabytes was the market’s “capacity champion.” In 1979, IBM introduced the 8-inch 62PC (Piccolo) drive with a capacity of 65 megabytes. Today, Seagate’s drives can store up to 20 terabytes of data.