That could hold 30 billion 4K movies
on April 8, 2021, 5:20
What just happened? Seagate has announced that since being founded in 1979, it has shipped three zettabytes of hard drive storage capacity—the first data storage company to reach the milestone. Illustrating drive technology's progression is the fact Seagate took 36 years to ship 1 zettabyte in total, then less than four years to hit 2 zettabytes, followed by just two more years to pass 3 zettabytes.
Three zettabytes is, of course, a lot of drive space: one 1ZB is 1,000 exabytes; 1EB is 1,000 petabytes; 1PB is 1,000 terabytes. Seagate notes that the amount of storage it has shipped could hold 7.5 trillion MP3 songs, around 60 billion video games, and 30 billion 4K movies (check out the infographic below).