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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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My seagate still has no bads and it's 2-3 years old. Congrats Seagate!Yeah right, super. The WD "Caviar Blue" OEM drive (160GB OEM), in my Emachines T-5026 is pushing 6, (5 yrs 9 mos), and still going strong. You don't know if your drive is 2 or 3 years old? That's really not long enough to forget when you got it.All I had to do was put down my name and email address to write a post, didn't even use my last name. If you win, the only info you will be giving is your address, so they can send you the hard drive. I do agree that the chances of winning will be high but that's with anything you try to win.Listen, any personal info for this nonsense is too much. This "giveaway" is still astoundingly cheesy. It probably cost them more in man hours to announce it, than it did for the HDDs to give away. And they got those drives for manufacturer's cost, which is probably half of dealer cost.
Get back to me when you win. In the meantime, why not try subtracting 3 from 1.5 billion. I think the answer's still 1.5 billion, but I can be imprecise at times.
Do you two have your tickets to China bought yet?
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congratulations seagate! the last seagate harddrive that i bought was more than 10yrs ago
hoping that the prices here in my country would drop, as most retailers here sell wd drives a lot cheaper and have 2 yrs store warranty as opposed to the 1 yr store warranty given edit: oh and by the way so far i'm still looking to buy at least a 2Tb drive... to replace my very old 250gb sata 1 wd harddrive
cheers
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congratulations seagate! the last seagate harddrive that i bought was more than 10yrs ago hoping that the prices here in my country would drop, as most retailers here sell wd drives a lot cheaper and have 2 yrs store warranty as opposed to the 1 yr store warranty given
cheers
Here in the US of A, Seagate drives sell @ 15 to 20% less than what a comparable WD would bring. This is from Newegg's sale Email prices.
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Funny.... 1.5 billionth drives sold.....Three for free just for you.... Thank you very much.
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thats nice i can say congrats, hmm i wonder wat number i was i got one of theres and its been great i got 500gb and then eventually had to get another .....if u guys notice buying 1tb can be for efficient than buying a 500gb from some places so watch out.
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Very nice, congratulations Seagate!
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i doubt anyone here will get it but u might as well try right?
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Here in the US of A, Seagate drives sell @ 15 to 20% less than what a comparable WD would bring. This is from Newegg's sale Email prices.
prices of seagate are better there.... here it's the other way around....
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AnonymousSurfer said:
Sign me up! I could use another hard drive!
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Really, people like most of you, are the reason we were able to buy Manhattan from the Indians for a bunch of cheap costume jewelry....!
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