Seagate Buys Maxtor

This is interesting. I almost exclusively use Seagate, and completely refuse to use Maxtor for some time now.

This brings back memories of when Maxtor bought out Quantum. I loved Quantum, mainly because back then my uncle worked for them and he gave me free SCSI HDD's with SCSI cards for my PC. Then the buy out occurred and he got laid off.

Wonder how many people's uncles at Maxtor will get the pink slip as well. :(

haha.. I knew I'd come in here and see the:

"WD fo' life yo! Seagate neva again!"
"pff, I had 10 WD's die and take out my family in the process.. It's Maxtor all the way baybee!"
"Maxtor died for me and took all my pr0n! Only Seagate for me!"

Everyone has had hdd's fail and people swear by different manufacturers who've worked for them. There's no fail proof hdd made by anyone unfortunately =(

Back up your important shit?

How bout noise issues? My raptor makes all kind of glorious racket. A bud's got a samsung spinpoint and I swear he's lying to me about being on...

Loudest to quietest from my HDD bin:

1. WD Raptor 74 - LOUD!
2. Hitachi 7K250 - slightly annoying
3. WD 80JB - it talks
4. Seagate Barracuda 60 - it whispers

My recent Seagate hd died. I think their durability is going downhill as of late.

Every single hard drive review focuses on performance tests. And most consumers, it seems, focus on performance performance performance. What good is performance in a data storage device if it's going to break down soon and cause loss of all data? The amount of inconvenience this causes to me is enormous. I have always felt that the #1 priority for hard drives (and other data storage devices) should be data integrity & longevity. This is what I wish the manufacturers would focus more on. I would rather have a slow hard drive that is going to last twice as long, and indeed durability is what I look for when I purchase a hard drive (although it is difficult to find information on this, and it involves trial & error).

As for this acquisition, it's just corporate politics like most big mergers. While it seems good at first, the consumer will lose out in the end because of reduced competition. How much longer before all the big players merge and then we're left with a monopoly in the hard drive industry?

I have had ZERO problems with Maxtor Drives ever. Had a Quantam and a IBM fail tho. Don't really think any are more prone than the next, its the nature of the beast..

i got the new high density seagate drive sata2 NCQ all that jazz for $89...the thing rocks in terms of speed. Quiet and cool too.

I've thought for quite some time that they're all pretty much the same as far as longevity goes. I have had them all and I've been pleased with them all. I don't think there's one brand that fails more than any other.

The wind will blow, the sun will rise, and hard drives will inevitably fail, at some point when you have the potential to lose forever the most data. It's part of the great circle of life

I wonder what ole WD may do now. I've had good luck and bad luck with each HD maker so I don't discriminate. Currently have a WD 200gig and a WD 400gig. Both have performed great. I retired my Segate Baracuda 80gig due to bad secotrs accumulating.

Im waiting to see how those new drives late next year with some Nand memory on them perform.

Lets hope Seagate can improve the QA at Maxtor.