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Seagate claims it’s the first company to hit the magical “one billion drives shipped” mark, and doesn’t plan on slowing down any duration soon. The company was founded in 1979, with its first drive offering up 5MB of storage for a whopping $1,500. We’ve certainly come a lengthy way in 29 years, and Seagate expects to ship its next billion drives in less than five years. Of course, with

all that “cloud computing” talk we’d think drive sales have to slow down at some point, but there’s certainly no sign of our GB appetites abating just yet. Now whether you’ll excuse us, we need to download that 7GB MMO demo to a secondary hard drive.

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Original post by Paul Miller