Whoa that sucks!! I figured if Best Buy did it everyone else would hehe..
The ones I saw said Maxtor at the top like yours but where it said
Diamondmax/Diamondmax plus they were marked Quantam something or other on
em.. Shit man now I gotta watch out for what I buy too, its about time to
add a new 60GB drive just for audio hehe..

> 
> 
> Mothra wrote:
> 
>> Looks like everyone missed this the last time we had a thread on this but
>> Quantam Maxtors are CLEARLY marked on the side of the box. They say Quantam
>> on them, the regular ones just say Diamondmax. If Best Buys drives are
>> marked as such, Im pretty sure every other store in the world also has the
>> marked ones.
> 
> I can assure you that this isn't always the fact.  I have bought drives in the
> last month from Fry's electronics, CompUSA and Local Mac stores in the last
> month.  I have 6 boxes sitting right here.  None of them say anything about
> Quantum on the outside of the box, and 4 of the 6 were Quantum drives
> relabeled
> as Maxtor.  I can send you a Pic of the labels.  They all say:
> 
> Maxtor
> Diamondmax/Diamondmax Plus
> Buffer size:
> Access time
> Yada yada yada.
> 
> Nothing about them being Quantum drives.
> 
> I need to go take all these boxes to the garbage now.  ;-)
> 
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