http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/ Engadget Comments for Seagate: 1 billion drives served http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/
"Wait ... this is a hard drive manufacturer so when they get to 1,073,741,824 drives (1 G-drives), we can celebrate!"

Then again, hard drive manufacturers are notorious for disobeying the rules of orders of magnitude for binary numbers so there would be some lame fine print at the bottom: "(for the purposes of the sales volume, Seagate considers 1,000,000,000 drives to be a G-drive)".
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I used to agree with you on the prefix thing, until someone explained it to me. Technically, the HDD industry is using the Giga prefix correctly. A Gibibyte is the IEC-approved prefix for 2^30 bytes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibi#IEC_standard_prefixes]]>Apr 22nd 2008 11:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 23rd 2008 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/
I had one of my two newer 7200.11 500Gig sata drives fail and that was after I had to flash the firmware to the proper version so the drive would recognize all of the cache. Right around 2 weeks of usage and my case was alive with the sound of clicking. The other drive is still alive, but I don't put anything important on it incase it dies as well.]]>Apr 22nd 2008 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/ Thank you best buy for the paper weight.]]>Apr 22nd 2008 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/
I, uh... wait, what?]]>Apr 22nd 2008 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/
He might be talking about an external drive. However, those should just come up as a generic USB mass storage device...]]>Apr 22nd 2008 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/thats what she said :x]]>Apr 22nd 2008 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/
Especially when you load it up with porn.]]>Apr 22nd 2008 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/
Does anyone know why the system won't notify me when someone replies to my comments?]]>Apr 22nd 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/
Hey I actually got notified of this reply. I guess the problem only happens when I reply to a person's comment. A while back I remember that whenever a person replied to that same comment you replied to you would be notified]]>Apr 22nd 2008 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/
I have probably 15 Seagate drives, the only company I'll buy from. Keep goin Seagate!]]>Apr 22nd 2008 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/
It seems that the problem only happens when I reply to another person's comment. I remember that a while back whenever a person replied to a comment that you replied to too, you would get a notification letting you know that.]]>Apr 22nd 2008 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/
Hey I actually got notified of this reply. I guess the problem only happens when I reply to a person's comment. A while back I remember that whenever a person replied to that same comment you replied to you would be notified]]>Apr 22nd 2008 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/
Thanks quality control!]]>Apr 22nd 2008 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/ Win 95. Ahhhh...memories...]]>Apr 22nd 2008 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/
just got my 4th seagate rma back......second time i have rmad this drive wtf lol]]>Apr 22nd 2008 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/I think engadget's suggestion that cloud computing will decrease hard drive sales is bull. All that data has to be stored somewhere, and a lot of time it's also backed up]]>Apr 22nd 2008 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/
Isn't the cloud essentially made up of just a bunch of disks anyway? I'm primarily thinking of Google who uses tons of off the shelf hard drives for their storage. So won't there just be a shift in who buys the disks, but not sales in general?]]>Apr 22nd 2008 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 22nd 2008 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/seagate-1-billion-drives-served/Apr 23rd 2008 11:21PM