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Seagate ships 1.5 billionth drive, celebrates with giveaway
Seagate said that its first billion drives equated to 79 million terabytes, enough space to store 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of music. With an extra 500 million units under its belt, those figures have ballooned to approximately 118.5 million terabytes, enough for 237 billion hours of digital video or 1.8 trillion hours of music. At its current sales rate, the company expects to move its 2-billionth drive within the next 2 years.
To celebrate its achievement, the company is giving away one 1.5TB GoFlex ultra-portable external hard drive to three winners. To enter, post a comment on Seagate's blog post by 5PM PT, November 15. Alternatively, you can snail mail your name, address and contact information to: Seagate 1.5 Billion Shipped Blog Sweepstakes c/o Corp. Communications, 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, CA 95066. Names will be drawn on November 19.
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Just 3 eh?
Well I'll take one I suppose.
Will they give away one more when they hit 2 billion?
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I'd like to enter. Put me on the list.
And of course, I love the fact that Seagate is still going strong. Fierce competition like this only brings cheaper products for us, the consumers.
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1.5 TB i could use a back up for everything and then some
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Congratulations Seagate, I just got a 500GB Seagate for my HTPC.
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princeton said:
Count me in!
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Just bought a new computer. I could use a quality 1.5TB back up drive.
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My girlfriend just bought one two days ago. It might break her heart if I win one :P
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Sure, I could always use another Seagate to buy more cr&p and watch porn. That's what they're for.
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Ranger12 said:
sign me up!
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Im keen on one
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Seagate 80Gig External Drive
I am very satisfied with your product,as well as the price.
Thank You, Vernon Ferguson
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lchu12 said:
I can always use free stuff!
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Ahmed90 said:
nice :P
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That's cool been looking for a new hard drive but haven't found one with a good price.
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I would like to have one.
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I'm in, always need more storage.
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Yes please - one of those thanks!
I wonder how long it would take to donwload "158 billion hours of digital video". You would probably get to 98% and the internet connection would timeout. Argghh!
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Put me on the list for one of those, I think it might be time to try a portable hard drive now.
That's a remarkable feat though, 500 million in 2.5 years versus 1billion in 29 years. At this rate, they'll be shipping billions of hard drives a minute in the future :-P
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I'm in, and congrats to Seagate!
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Recipe7 said:
Whoo hoo! Time to upgrade my 160gb external! Please sign me up for this TS!
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I would love a 1.5 TB external hardrive.
Please sign me up.
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hook a brother up.
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Definnetly could use this count me in
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Count me in!
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Give up guys, it's already mine.
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