In december we reported that Seagate was acquiring Maxtor. Quite what would happen to Maxtor has been speculated since. The Tech Report now fills in the gaps, reporting that the Maxtor brand will now be Seagate's cheapo line of kit.[The Tech Report]On the desktop, this value brand will manifest itself as the Maxtor DiamondMax 20, which will be available in capacities between 40GB and 320GB with either 2MB or 8MB of cache. Seagate is also introducing the MobileMax—Maxtor's first notebook drive—that will be available in 40GB to 80GB capacities with a 5,400-RPM spindle speed and 2MB of cache. These new drives will overlap the low end of Seagate's existing Barracuda and Momentus lines, but lack premium features like full-disk encryption and 16MB caches.


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