Seagate ships 1.5 billionth drive, celebrates with giveaway

Is this open to international residents, I suggest that it should be since 1.5 billion shipments included alot from selling and shipping outside the US.

If thats the case, count me in!
 
This thing is a floppy drive compared to my storage array. No way its going to backup all my data. However it could be useful for my parents who need a way to backup all their digital photos.
 
It's not fair :(
This is not international :(
Maybe I'll stop buying Seagate products from now on!
Kiddin' :p
 
I like seagate but now I use wester product because of seagate failure in 7200., more fail , but I hope seagate now fix it , so I will consider to buy new hard disk from seagate
 
Great accomplishment for Seagate. Now, I wish they would start pumping out SSDs and just set aside hybrid drives for now. In turn, hopefully, SSD prices will fall to attractive levels for the average consumer.
 
external hdds are getting popular more than ever. since most users want to bring their content where ever they go. thumb drives are sometimes insufficient for people. external hdds are becoming smaller but comes with larger storage space. progress!
 
wow...

In order for Seagate to give away something (3 fricking hard drives) as thanks, they have to sell 1.5 billion hard drives first.

If you borrow money from Seagate, they'd fly in people on first class just to break your legs.
 
It's more insignificant that it it's only open to US residents. I think that should be mentioned on Techspot.
 
That is certainly a ton of hard drives. Now if only they could aggregate the type of data stored on those drives and publish the information. That would be interesting.
 
Thanks for the tip. Posted on their blog hope I win! Also pretty crazy how many drives are being sold these days!
 
That is a truly impressive feat to ship that many drives in that little time. It makes me wonder what the numbers are for some of the other major players. As things stand that means that Seagate has now shipped approximately 1 drive for every 4 and a half people on the planet, that's pretty damned impressive.
 
Take this drive and shove it......

OK, 3 Hard drives against 1.5 billion sold is unbelievably shabby. The odds of winning are so infinitesimal, it's not worth the personal information you have to give up to enter. I switched to the WD "Caviar Black" drives a while ago, this just makes me want to buy more of them.

I think I know how they could have topped this prize. Why not send the, "lucky winner", on a no expenses paid trip to China, to work in a Seagate factory for a day.
 
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