SEAGATE CELEBRATES MILESTONE: FIRST TO REACH TWO BILLION HARD DISK DRIVES SHIPPED

29 Years to Reach First Billionth Shipped — Just Four Years to Reach Second

MALAYSIA - 21 March 2013 — Seagate Technology, a worldwide leader in storage solutions, today announced it is the first hard disk drive manufacturer to ship two billion hard disk drives (HDD)—a staggering number fuelled by the explosive demand for storage from mobile applications, cloud infrastructures, social media, business applications and a wide variety of consumer markets. A testament to the pivotal role played by storage in today’s digital world, it took Seagate 29 years to reach one billion units shipped and just four years to reach the second billion milestones.

“This is truly an impressive accomplishment and I am proud to lead this company as we celebrate this success,” said Steve Luczo, president, CEO and chairman of Seagate. This achievement is a testament to the commitment of our employees whose relentless dedication and personal pride continue to be the fabric of this company.”

Digital content demand continues to stem from a wide range of sources, including social media and mobile devices, fuelling the need for storage. Analysts estimate that over 4 billion hours of user-generated content is watched each month on YouTube alone. While user generated high-definition camcorder video, still pictures, and smartphone clip sharing storage needs are expected to quadruple from 2013 to 2015.

“The ever-growing number of mobile and content capture devices using cloud services is fuelling the growth of digital content,” according to John Rydning, IDC’s research vice president, for hard drives and semiconductors. “Mobile devices and the cloud are coming together to drive ongoing demand for hard disk drives, with shipments reaching more than 585 million units in 2013, and hard disk drive Terabyte shipments worldwide growing at a 30 percent 2012-2016 compound annual growth rate¹.”

“By 2015 households which today routinely consume 1TB of data a month are expected to generate 20 times the amount of data than they currently save,” said Richard Doherty, research director of the Envisioneering Group, a technology research and consulting company. “Consumer’s continued appetites for securely saving and organizing high-definition multimedia requires higher performance and the most trusted and dependable drives. Seagate’s drives and technology roadmap provide the ideal solution for consumer's soaring need for storage in the home - and away; now, and in the future.”
   
For more information on Seagate’s two billion HDD shipped celebration please visit www.seagate.com/www/milestone.


希捷喜迎发展里程新篇章：硬盘出货量率先突破20亿
第一个10亿历时29年，而第二个10亿仅用了4年

马来西亚，2013年3月21日 ——全球领先的硬盘及存储解决方案提供商希捷科技公司 (Seagate Technology) 日前宣布，公司的硬盘出货量率先突破20亿块，这一惊人的数字主要得益于移动应用、云基础设施、社交媒体、企业应用以及各种消费市场的爆炸性存储需求。希捷实现第一个10亿的出货量历时29年，而第二个10亿仅用了4年，说明在如今的数字世界，存储设备正发挥着日益重要的作用。

希捷的总裁、首席执行官兼董事长Steve Luczo表示：“这真的是一项非常重大的成就，能够领导公司取得这样的成功，我感到非常自豪。它说明了我们的员工在不懈努力，他们的奉献精神和个人自豪感是我们公司发展的基石。”

数字内容需求不断地产生于各种各样的来源，包括社交媒体和移动设备，从而形成了对存储设备的需求。分析人士预计，仅Youtube上用户每月观看的视频量就超过了40亿小时。随着用户不断制作出更多的高清视频、静止图片和手机摄像片段，2013年至2015年共享存储需求有望增长四倍。

IDC的硬盘与半导体行业研究副总裁John Rydning表示：“采用云服务的移动设备和内容获取设备数量不断增长，因此推动了数字内容的迅猛增加。移动设备和云共同助长了硬盘需求的扩大，2013年硬盘出货量将达到5.85亿块，而2012-2016年全球硬盘容量的复合年增长率将高达30% 。”

科技研究与咨询公司Envisioneering Group的研究总监Richard Doherty表示：“现在每月通常消费1TB数据的家庭，到2015年将能够产生相当于目前20倍的数据量。消费者安全保存和制作高清多媒体的需求不断发展，因此要求硬盘提供更高的性能和最大的可靠性。希捷的硬盘和技术发展路线能够为消费者迅猛增长的存储需求提供理想的解决方案，无论是家用还是商用，无论现在还是未来。”

欲进一步了解希捷20亿硬盘出货量的情况，请登录www.seagate.com/www/milestone。

[1] 资料来源：2012–2016年IDC全球硬盘最新预测（IDC #237304，2012年10月) 第2页