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Tim S · 21st Dec 2005, 12:01

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/12...to_buy_maxtor/

Xen0phobiak · 21st Dec 2005, 12:04

Well I'd hope someone will pick up the RMA's, seeing as maxtors like to break often. I imagine they would though, its not as if maxtor are going bust right?

<A88> · 21st Dec 2005, 12:04

Sheesh! So will Maxtor become Seagate? Either way, I've had on-off relationships with the former so it'll be interesting to see how much they change the hard-drives.

<A88>

MrWillyWonka · 21st Dec 2005, 12:08

Last I heard Maxtor was in the red, so Seagate probably probably got them cheap

I just hope Seagate doesn't (eventually) use Maxtor's machines and rename the HDDs because Maxtor as Xen0phobiak says, break a lot. I don't want to be ending up with an ex-Maxtor drive labled Seagate

tm36usa · 21st Dec 2005, 12:24

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Originally Posted by MrWillyWonka

I just hope Seagate doesn't (eventually) use Maxtor's machines and rename the HDDs because Maxtor as Xen0phobiak says, break a lot. I don't want to be ending up with an ex-Maxtor drive labled Seagate

Im gald segate bought maxtor, I hope they do make them better drives as all the maxtor drives I have had suck. I had to rma it twice and so far this second time it seems to be running ok *Knocks on wood*. Im grad i just bought a 200gb segate of black friday, no chance of getting a re-labeled drive. Segate is almost gonna have to relabel the drives, they must have a ton still in the factory. And Segate's warrentys are sweet. 5 years, and if it stops working a no-questions-asked rma of the thing. Even WD policy isnt that great. Western Digital and Segate for me!

alastor · 21st Dec 2005, 12:33

I'd hope that Seagate continue to use the Maxtor name for drives made in the Maxtor factories. That way you'd be completely sure of what you were getting...

valium · 21st Dec 2005, 12:34

Seagate has great drives, and I would expect no less from a company that they have purchased. I for one am glad that Maxtor drives will be no more due to the fact that I have replaced about a billion of them.

jakenbake · 21st Dec 2005, 12:43

ya, i have never used a seagate drive, but i've only been retarded enough to use a maxtor twice, and both were pieces of crap that quit working (thanks dell). hopefully seagate gives them a kick in the ass and doesn't just repackage them, or else i'll never turn to seagate. (i'm a western digital guy)

perplekks45 · 21st Dec 2005, 13:04

C'mon you don't really think they won't re-lable the drives they produce in the time between today and the day Maxtor officially is dead.

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and the two firms will continue as separate companies until the deal is closed.

I don't think Maxtor will stop producing right now or even change the way they produce.

Hamish · 21st Dec 2005, 13:07

sigh, time to start buying hitachi's now i think

MrWillyWonka · 21st Dec 2005, 13:20

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Originally Posted by aon`aTv.gsus666

C'mon you don't really think they won't re-lable the drives they produce in the time between today and the day Maxtor officially is dead.
I don't think Maxtor will stop producing right now or even change the way they produce.

Which is why I said "eventually" in my post, whenever the deal is going to close.

Bindibadgi · 21st Dec 2005, 13:27

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Originally Posted by Hamish

sigh, time to start buying hitachi's now i think

Nothing wrong with Hitachi (notebook) drives :P

I hope Seagate adopt Maxtors "advanced RMA" cause it totally rocks, although, unsupprisingly you're more likely to need it

In future im only buying Seagate disks, as a rule of thumb now.

Awoken · 21st Dec 2005, 13:29

This can only be a good thing, greater production capacity for seagate - good reliable, quiet drive technology for Maxtor. Unless Seagate rebadge Maxtor drives with no improvements to the manufacturing I can't see this being a bad deal

Nix · 21st Dec 2005, 13:48

tbh im thinking this will actually make seagate drives worse.

Chances are they will use maxtor plants aswell to make their drives and what if its the factory itself that makes the drives soo dodgy. Could end up seeing seagates drives have more and more errors.

My mates maxtor literally exploded and took out his other his other hdd. When we took the case panel off there was a bit of smoke and parts of the 2 hdds had smoke all over them

Hamish · 21st Dec 2005, 14:49

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Originally Posted by Bindibadgi

Nothing wrong with Hitachi (notebook) drives :P

i was serious, **** seagate

i've had one out of about 8 or 9 maxtors fail, i like maxtors
i also like my silly fast hitachi's, so thats probably what im going to buy from now on

Da Dego · 21st Dec 2005, 14:58

I love seagate...I hope this helps maxtor instead of hindering Seagate's drives!!!

Thankfully, though, I recently got a hold of my nearly terabyte of seagate storage for my HTPC stuff.

So I shouldn't need a drive for a while.

valium · 21st Dec 2005, 14:58

Personally I think that this will in no way harm Seagates HD's. Maxtor had crappy internals on their drives and Seagate will more than likely start shipping their internals to the Maxtor plants. I consider Seagate and Western Digital two of the top brands of hard drives and Seagate cant afford to fudge this up.

I wish Hitachi and Western Digital would team up and make some 15,000 rpm SATAII drives, man would that be awesome. Too bad we'll never see 10k-15k rpm drives with SATAII and NCQ all bundled together. =[

kosch · 21st Dec 2005, 15:30

I'm hoping they will release a new line of hdd's like the raptors but call them Squirrels!

valium · 21st Dec 2005, 16:58

Sextors anyone?

Malfoleo · 21st Dec 2005, 17:46

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Originally Posted by valium

Sextors anyone?

Didn't you hear? Those will be the new budget "hard" drives to go with AMD's budget chip, the Sempr0n.

But seriously, I hope maxtor die and go up in flames just like most of their hard drives do

I know a couple people who will only ever buy maxtor drives, and amazingly enough, every last one of them has had to replace every single drive they've owned. I've never had a single problem with any of the 6 spinpoint's I've owned (4 IDE, 2 SATA). Plus, when I'm doing HDD intensive tasks, I am not forced to listen to my hard drives slowly gutting themselves (or at very least, that's what it sounds like!)

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Nix Multimodder Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Bristol/Portsmouth(Uni) Posts: 197	tbh im thinking this will actually make seagate drives worse. Chances are they will use maxtor plants aswell to make their drives and what if its the factory itself that makes the drives soo dodgy. Could end up seeing seagates drives have more and more errors. My mates maxtor literally exploded and took out his other his other hdd. When we took the case panel off there was a bit of smoke and parts of the 2 hdds had smoke all over them

21st Dec 2005, 14:58	#16
Da Dego Brett Thomas Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Cleveland, OH USA Posts: 3,906	I love seagate...I hope this helps maxtor instead of hindering Seagate's drives!!! Thankfully, though, I recently got a hold of my nearly terabyte of seagate storage for my HTPC stuff. So I shouldn't need a drive for a while. __________________ "Frankly that seems overkill. iluvtrees2 arguing with spec is the intellectual equivalent of a bunny rabbit taking on a pissed-off lion." - Nexxo

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