History (1998): One Billionth Magnetic Recording Head Shipped by Seagate
Equivalent of storage of 55 stacks of paper reaching from earth to moon
By Jean Jacques Maleval | January 12, 2022 at 2:01 pmSeagate Technology Inc. became the first company to ship one billion magnetic recording heads for use in Winchester disk drives.
The firm explained that it has supplied enough of these heads to read and write the equivalent in storage of the contents of the entire Library of Congress (532 miles of bookshelves) 24,722x over, or the equivalent of 55 stacks of paper reaching from the earth to the moon …
This article is an abstract of news published on issue 124 on May 1998 from the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter.