Maxtor drives

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have been sold to Seagate for $2 billion dollars.

Anyone hesitant about buying one of their drives can now buy in confidence
now that Seagate has bought them.
 
have been sold to Seagate for $2 billion dollars.

Anyone hesitant about buying one of their drives can now buy in confidence
now that Seagate has bought them.
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By that logic, you can now also buy a IBM Deathstar in confidence because
Hitachi bought them, right? Wrong.
 
Mike,

Hitachi does not compare to Seagate. So, your point is invalid.
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My point is that shoddy hardware sold by a company that cannot compete
does not magically become worthy of purchase because the company changes
hands.
 
Ryan said:
have been sold to Seagate for $2 billion dollars.

Anyone hesitant about buying one of their drives can now buy in confidence
now that Seagate has bought them.
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Lets just hope that Seagate does not let its drives degenerate to the level
of Maxtors.
Maxtors have always sucked...overpriced, hot and they die early deaths due
to poor quality components.

On the other hand, I have a Seagate that came in a Compaq I bought back in
1987. The drive still works today, and has been used just about
continuously since the day it was bought. every Maxtor I have ever owned
have died within 12 to 18 months.

Bobby
 
Hi, been purchasing Maxtor drivers for years. Currently maintain around
around 150 PC's with them in, only had one failure to date. What's your
problem?
ChrisC
 
And how do you make the leap of logic that a change in the listed owner
somehow changes the current drive design and factory output quality?
 
Chris

Out of six, I have had four fail within a year.. one lasted only three
days.. a visit to a forum re. Maxtor drives showed that I was not alone by a
substantial margin..
 
Hi mike, ok then we beg to difer, you can visit any forum you care to name
and you'll see bad things written about any product, nature of forums.
I've also got four in my own PC, two DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 160g's and two
MaxlineIII 250g's, just installed. I've also worked for a local PC company
that was a Microsoft Certified Partner, as a technicion, and I don't recall
any Maxtors failing, plenty of Samsongs' and IBM's. Another myth, it seems,
is that Maxtors are expensive, however here
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Maxtor2.html and here
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Samsung.html indicate that there is
no difference.
ChrisC
 
Lets just hope that Seagate does not let its drives degenerate to the level
of Maxtors.
Maxtors have always sucked...overpriced, hot and they die early deaths due
to poor quality components.
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Have had 3 maxtors in my system for years (2 of them are around 5
years old) None of them have had a single problem. My newest drive is
a Seagate. Also had no problems with it and the Seagate came with a 5
year warranty.
 
Chris

What you say is true.. all products have bad times.. Maxtor's problem is
that there are more failures than there should have been.. even their
website suggested that the firmware for some drives may be suspect.. some of
their drives run hot too, apparently down to the physical size properties of
the drives.. if mounted in close proximity to each other, as the fixing in
most cases forces, premature failure is definitely on the cards..

As with all things, if you get a good one, then all is well.. Western
Digital, Hitachi, Fujitsu and IBM (the ubiquitous Death Star) have their
moments of good and bad.. Seagate have not had a particularly good record at
some times in the past, but at the moment, they seem to be top dog in HDD
manufacture..

The failure rate that I experienced is totally unacceptable.. unfortunately,
I have lost track of the forum where many others had similar experiences.. I
will not be using Maxtor again until such time as I see evidence suggesting
that their product line has improved greatly..
 
Have to agree that all HD mfrs have their on run of bad drives from time to
time.

The only corporate motivation is see for the callusion of Seagate and Maxtor
is profit both short term stocks, and long term production costs. The final
product quality remains to be seen as result of all this.

The OPs comment and implying about current production Maxtor drives suddenly
becoming more quality oriented because of Seagate acquisition is simply
ludicrous.
 
Hi Mike, agreed, fair enough but I for one will as my experiences are quite
the opposite....
ChrisC
 
Maxtor (was) the best brand.



Mike Hall (MS-MVP) said:
Chris

Out of six, I have had four fail within a year.. one lasted only three
days.. a visit to a forum re. Maxtor drives showed that I was not alone by
a substantial margin..
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On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 05:03:03 -0500, "Jonny"
The OPs comment and implying about current production Maxtor drives suddenly
becoming more quality oriented because of Seagate acquisition is simply
ludicrous.
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Yep - what will happen is that dead Maxtors will be replaced with
Seagates, either new or (more likely) refurbed.

This is what happened when Maxtor bought out Quantum, though it was
clear Maxtor were looking for any excuse to weasel out of honoring
Quantum warranties.

It's impressive that Seagate is extending Maxtor's own 1- or 3-year
warranty to the Seagate 5-year standard, if this is indeed what is
happening. I certainly wouldn't do that if I were Seagate, unless my
success was such that I bought Maxtor as a tax loss opportunity.


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