By Michael Miller 

I was interested to hear today that Seagate has sold its billionth hard drive.

That’s pretty amazing. Seagate is by far the first to reach that number, but of course it’s not the only player in the hard disk market, which has accounted for about 3.5 billion drives all told. (Western Digital, Samsung, Toshiba, Hitachi, and Fujitsu are the other current hard drive makers.)

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Bill Watkins, CEO of Seagate Technology, and Michael Kanellos of CNET News.com discuss the future of the drive industry, the current economy, and some of the changes he’d like to see coming with the 2008 election.

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Hard drive maker Seagate (STX) filed a patent suit against flash drive maker STEC (STEC) in federal court on Monday, firing the first shot in a new intellectual property battle between hard drive makers and providers of flash storage technology.

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Bill Watkins talks about Wall Street, the economy, high tech, storage, flash and more.

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Michael Kanellos talks with Bill Watkins about Blue-ray, surveillance, flash and more.

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Eric Savitz writes about his meeting with Bill Watkins on his blog.

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Dean Takahashi talks with Bill Watkins at CES.

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Dean Takahashi on Seagate’s launch of its hybrid product (Momentus 5400) that combines a hard disk drive with flash memory storage. The Momentus 5400 press release is posted here as well as a link to the videocast interview, “Seagate Delivers Hybrid Hard Drive”, featuring Marc Jourlait, Seagate vice president Global Marketing.

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Seagate Technology, the industry’s largest producer of hard drives, has finally started shipping its first batch of hybrid hard drives for notebook PCs.

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Digitalstorage is vital. But Seagate’s CEO says we don’t respect it - and the country needs to keep it.

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