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I would like to think (seagate fan boy here woo) that seagate will just use all maxtors resources to make more and better seagate drives, then take over intel, and microsoft, and sony and nvidia and ati etc ans then rule the world!!!!!!!
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Like Quantum all over again. I believe I lost the warranty on my 5.25" HDD when they were bought, and I'll be very interested to find out what happens to my 3 year warranty on my current Maxtor OneTouchII.... Especially seeing as its had so many reliability problems documented.
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I've had only bad experiances of maxtor. I own 1 drive that hasn't had to been RMA'd, and thats a SCSI one so you'd damn well hope that never has to be RMA'd (as its MTBF is much higher).
Seagate however have been getting hudge of late, with their new desner platters too.
As to nay sayers about HDD performance increase, if you look its been increasing very very slowly. The same way Transistors double every epoch of 18 years, HDD capacity is ment to too. (its all about getting twice as much in the same space). But if you look at HDD prices, they've not moved much in the last 8 months.
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I wonder whether the new company will offer the original Seagate 5 year warranty..... (instead of the measly 3 from Maxtor now.)
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I'm another Maxtor fan, I have three, all were cheap and have been quick and reliable. Still, although I don't think less competition in the hard drive market is a good thing, Samsung seem to have made good inroads recently, and Fujitsu are still going, albeit mainly laptop and server drives, so we still have a choice of at least 5 companies.
I might be wrong here, but I don't think that was the case - I'm reasonably sure that we managed to get a Quantum drive replaced by Maxtor once....Originally Posted by Xaneden
No one's doubting that, but IBM don't make HDDs any more. OK, I'm not saying that every maxtor drive is bad, but they are a brand that we have had one of the highest failure rates with, if you exclude Fujitsu, which don't make desktop HDDs any more anyway.
IBM do exist as IBM/HGST. They merged and tried to shake off the IBM brand after the appalling *Deathstar* hard drives. Personally I have owned 2 Maxtors and they have been ultra reliable, as have at least three friends. Seagates I also know to be very reliable as well, in fact Dell now build all their office machines with Maxtors in them and where I work we have hundreds of Dells but have never had a failure on any of the Maxtor hard drives. Have replaced a couple of Western Digital ones mind.
Had an absolute mass of drives fail in the machines at my old college. I cannot remember if they were Maxtor or WD, but I can probably find out.
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IMHO they did shake it off. They stopped using the process that had caused all the errors with the Deathstar series and they've been reliable (for us at least) ever since. We've used a couple of hundred Hitachi HDDs of various models in our workshop for repairs, upgrades and system builds and had maybe one or two faulty. The few times we've had to buy maxtor in, we had two faulty in one batch of ten, one in another, and three in another one, and most recently, a one-off we bought due to not easily being able to get hold of anything else, the plastic part of the SATA connector decided to come off with the cable when an experienced colleague pulled the cable out.
Of course the majority of people are going to be ok, and not everyone is going to have the same circumstances. None of us are wrong because we're all speaking from experience, but I thought I'd explain mine, rather than sounding like I had a personal vendetta against Maxtor for no good reason
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