Seagate 30th Anniversary - Milestone Summary

 

1979

Seagate founded as disc drive manufacturer

This is the first company logo.

 

In 2000 the company changed name and a new company logo was developed.  In 2008 this logo was replaced with the current Seagate logo.

 

 

Photos of the first Seagate company building

 

 

The world’s first hard disk drive - RAMAC - was invented by All Shugart, the company founder

 

 

Alan Shugart - company founder

 

1980

The world’s first 5.25 HDD ST-506HDD - 3,600rpm, 5MB, ST412 port (ST 506)

 

1991

Seagate introduced the first Barracuda product

 

 

November 1992

Seagate introduces the first 7,200 RPM disc drive

 

November 1992

Seagate first–to–market with shock–sensing technology for 2.5–inch disc drives ST9140AG

 

October 1996

Seagate introduced the first 10,000 RPM drive – Cheetah family (Cheetah 10K)

 

October 1997

Seagate introduced the world's first fibre channel interface disc drive

Seagate introduced first 7,200 RPM, Ultra ATA drive for desktop computers (Medalist Pro 9140 (ST39140A)

 

February 2000

Seagate introduced world's first 15,000 RPM disc drive – Cheetah X15

 

 

A close up photo of Cheetah 15K.33 

November 2000

Seagate introduces the world's highest capacity disc drive – Barracuda 180 Gbyte ST1181677lW

 

May 2002

Seagate announces Cheetah 15K.3 - its third generation 15,000 RPM drive one year ahead of the competition ST373453LW

 

August 2002

Seagate successfully demos HAMR technology - HAMR aims to increase areal density by more than 100 times

 

November 2002

Seagate delivers industry's first Serial ATA disc drive -- the Barracuda ATA V

Seagate demonstrates perpendicular recording areal density of 100 gigabits per square inch

  

 

June 2003

Seagate enters notebook market with Momentus 2.5-inch disc drive (Momentus 5400.1) ST94011A

 

February 2004

Seagate announces Savvio, the industry's first 2.5-inch enterprise disc drive (Savvio 10K.1) ST973401LC

 

The Savvio10k1

 

June 2005

The first perpendicular recording 2,5-inch drive (Momentus 5400.3) ST9120822AS

 

 

April 2006

Seagate introduces world's first 750GB disc drive (Seagate 750GB Pushbutton Back-up)

 

March 2007

Seagate Ships World's First Laptop Drives with Full Disc Encryption (Momentus 5400 FDE.2) ST9120827AS

Seagate Ships World's First 7200-RPM Notebook Hard Drive with 160GB of Capacity and Free-Fall Protection

 

April 2008

Seagate Ships 1 Billionth Hard Drive

 July 2008

Seagate ships world's First 1.5 TB Hard Drive (Barracuda® 7200.11 1.5TB)

 

September 2008

Momentus 5400.6 500GB, an areal density of 394 Gbits per square inch – the highest ever for a notebook hard drive – with a data transfer rate of 87 Megabytes/second, the fastest available for a 5400-rpm notebook drive.

 

January 2009

Seagate Ships Desktop Hard Drive With World's Highest Areal Density -- 500GB Per Disk

 

 February 2009

Seagate® Introduces Constellation™: All-Star Enterprise Hard Drives With The World's Highest Capacity And Power Efficiency

 

April 2009

Seagate Ships Barracuda LP -- New Low-Power Desktop Hard Drive Family With Best Power Efficiency And Largest Storage Capacity Available

 

July 2009

Seagate Releases World's Fastest, Highest Capacity And Most Efficient Cheetah Enterprise Drives Into The Channel

 

September 2009

Seagate Ships World's Fastest Desktop Hard Drive; First Drive to Feature Serial ATA 6Gbit/Second Technology

 Seagate First To Ship Enterprise-Class Self-Encrypting Drives To VARs And System Builders Worldwide

 

Self encrypting drive Security Vault 

 

December 2009

Seagate Introduces Its First Solid State Drive: Pulsar