Seagate Celebrates First Billionth HD Shipped

In a press release, Seagate claims to be the first hard drive manufacturer worldwide to have shipped 1 billion hard drives. The first HD was featuring 5 MB in 1979 and its price was 1500 USD. Until now, price per MB dropped dramatically: 1,350,000 fold, while maximal storage capacity increased by a factor 20,000. Of course, one should not forget that for marketing reason, one KB became smaller, moving from its original 1024 Bytes to 1000 Bytes (only on a marketing point of view).