On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Dan wrote:
At 10:39 AM -0500 6/17/2010, James Therrault wrote:
Didn't Maxtor go belly up a few years back?
They were assimilated by Seagate. Seagate now uses the Maxtor
name to brand their lower-end drives.
I remember something of the sort as the original Maxtors had high
failure rates. Count two of those in my history.
Don't know how old you are but in the late 1980's/early 1990's,
Seagate was producing a lot of junk as well. Back then IIRC,
Quantum was the brand to get... Never had a failure with one of
those.
Like most of the drive manufacturers, they had a spell of having to
deal with the fallout from bad glue. The stuff would dry, crack,
flake - and cause head crashes.
Seagate is once again the primo brand. Maxtor is now simply their
lower-end model line.
Yep, I've had two Seagates without issues and when it comes to
drives, I can't see myself going with any "low end" model. Data is
way to precious!
JT
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