Seagate:Maxtor is Lexus:Toyota?

[Midknyte]

Seagate Launches Maxtor Drives, Revamps Brand (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2023135,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532)

For enthusiast customers, the most dramatic effect will be Seagate's artificial segmentation of type, capacity and warranty. Maxtor will only sell its 3.5-inch DiamondMax and 2.5-inch MobileMax lines. Capacity-wise, there will be an overlap between Maxtor and Seagate drives, Jourlait said; for example, both brands currently sell 40-Gbyte to 320-Gbyte drives, with the same SATA 3.0/parallel ATA interface and an 8-Mbyte cache. The difference is that Seagate will ramp up from there to a 16-Mbyte cache, Jourlait said. Seagate drives will also offer higher "G" (gravity) shock tolerances, he added.

Seagate will also offer five-year warranties; Maxtor drives will only offer three. "Not everybody needs a 5-year warranty," Jourlait said.

Basically, Maxtor will be the "Economy" line, while Seagate will have the "Enthusiast" line. Something to consider when you're buying a new drive.

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Interesting.

Thanks :)

[Sterling_Aug]

I would call it more like Rolls Royce:Edsel

And we all know what happened to the Edsel.

[_Mystical_Night]

good thing i never buy maxtors :p

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Sterling behave ;)

Seriously have you had real problems with Maxtor then? I haven't.

First it was the IBM fiasco and that put me off them and their DeathStars, so went over to Maxtor because members like Otheo liked and recommended them. I hold his option is high regard like many here.

Obviously this is years ago and patterns and situations change.

If users made a HDD choice on their own I would say it will be the same manufacturer as they have been using, albeit no problems occurring previously.

Only if someone is looking to build a new system will the options on HDDs come out in the thread.

So your option and/or experience steers members away from Maxtor and towards Seagate – yes?

If so thanks for the heads up guys. I will take that under advisement.

[Sterling_Aug]

I have dozens of magnets taken out of dead Maxtors. Only a few of them came out of WD, Seagate, Fuji drives. The majority of them are Maxtor and Toshiba laptop drives.

At work early this year (at the contract I was supporting) we had to force Dell to replace 450 Maxtor slim line 40GB drives that we got in a batch of Optiplex GX-270 desktops.

Last year I had to visit my company headquarters. We dispose of old equipment for the customers. One of the services is to shred old hard drives using a special 200 Ton press and sharp blades that rip drives into small 1" pieces. You place the rive in the slot and seconds later the drive comes out in hundreds of pieces. Next to the machine was several 4 foot by 4 foot by 4 foot crates full of old hard drives. Over 90% of the drives were Maxtor slim line and Toshiba drives.

I will never buy Maxtor or Toshiba drives again, ever.

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I see.