Seagate helps organizations in all industries take advantage of storage innovations to solve technical challenges and do what they were meant to – affect change in their industry.

90%of the world’s data was created in the last two years.

Because the price of storage has decreased so rapidly,

$1.60$1.40$1.20$1.00$0.80$0.60$0.40$0.20$0.00

20032004

20052006

20072008

20092010

20112012

20132014

$1.45per GB

$0.06per GB

The HDD industry has increased capacity by

every year for the past 5 years.25%

of the world’s existing GBs of HDD storage were shipped in 2012 and 2013 combined.

50%

HOW QUICKLY IS THE COST PER GB DECREASING?

How Fast Is Your Data Footprint Growing?

At the Speed of Life:

*Total HDD industry revenue divided by total HDD industry capacity shipped.

of storage, at just 6 cents per GB.

In 2014, the HDD industry shipped more than

525GBBILLION$0.06

per GB

WHERE DOES IT ALL GO FROM HERE?

In 2014, the HDD industry shipped

exabytes of storage, a 15% year-over-year increase.

526

of the world’s largest

Housing the Internet would require more than

6TBHDDs.

x MILLION

100MILLION

worth of servers and storage systems.

In 2014, corporations purchased over

$70BILLION

a 12% increase year-over-year.

926GBIn 2014, the average HDD capacity shipment grew to

HOW MUCH STORAGE IS OUT THERE TODAY?