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| Thread ID: 64632 | 2005-12-21 21:22:00 | Maxtor to be bought out?? | Myth (110) | Press F1 |
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| 414596 | 2005-12-21 21:22:00 | Just seen this today, thought i would pass it on.. news.yahoo.com (news.yahoo.com) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 414597 | 2005-12-22 01:03:00 | Hah. And I bet they stop making actual Maxtor. Because Maxtor sucks. Note the article says Seagate and WD are the 2 biggest. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 414598 | 2005-12-22 01:32:00 | I imagine the horror of Maxtor drives that are labelled Seagate :yuck: Western Digital are the worst too (as I hear the distant sound of a G5 iMac with a ticking hard drive). |
gibler (49) | ||
| 414599 | 2005-12-22 03:55:00 | Most computer people I've met swear by either WD or seagate & think the other brand is complete crap. I've got friends that have had almost every seagate drive they bought die on them & some that have had the same experience with WD. Personally I have only had one WD drive die on me & I haven't had my seagate for long enough to comment on it. | Greven (91) | ||
| 414600 | 2005-12-22 04:42:00 | I imagine the horror of Maxtor drives that are labelled Seagate :yuck: They wouldn't do that . It would destroy their reputation . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 414601 | 2005-12-22 05:10:00 | I've lost three Seagates in quick succession . :xmouth: My current selection of 6 hard drives are all Western Digitals or Maxtors and they are all still going strong . Still, I know Seagates are good and supposed to be much quieter too . |
Jen (38) | ||
| 414602 | 2005-12-22 05:12:00 | Most computer people I've met swear by either WD or seagate & think the other brand is complete crap . I've got friends that have had almost every seagate drive they bought die on them & some that have had the same experience with WD . Personally I have only had one WD drive die on me & I haven't had my seagate for long enough to comment on it . ive got two 80gb segates and a 120gb segate these are all about 2-3 years old running fine, hell i broke the pins off two of them and they still go . got a new segate 160gb sata but i havent had that long . i dont mind wd, looking at getting two 250gb drives when i upgrade to replace the older drivers(i have a heap of games installed for lans)(and linux of course :)) |
Talon (2871) | ||
| 414603 | 2005-12-22 05:14:00 | I don't really think any brand is worse than the other... although I personally use maxtor because I have not had any problems with them and I have had failed drives with seagate. Haven't tried WD or samsung, but I've got a couple quantum (fireball :eek: )drives that are still going fine. Each manufacturer would be equally able to produce a bad batch of drives, and every company is famous for some line of drives they made that were full of failures. Really, it's a question of personal preference. I don't think any are actually 'the best' |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 414604 | 2005-12-22 05:53:00 | I primarely handle Seagate drives, so far haven't had asingle unit returned. As for my personal hodtory, every harddrive I have ever owned has eventually failed, My current horde of Seagates are still going but I dont trust harddrives..... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 414605 | 2005-12-22 06:20:00 | I've lost three Seagates in quick succession. pressf1.pcworld.co.nz My current selection of 6 hard drives are all Western Digitals or Maxtors and they are all still going strong. Still, I know Seagates are good and supposed to be much quieter too. In my humble opinion I would think that Seagate drives are very good. If I go to get a new one I will get a five year warranty. Just installed Fedora Core 4 on a very old Seagate 8.6 Gig HD. About to DUAL boot WinXPSP2 from a Seagate 200Gig H/D and Fedora core 4 installed on the Seagate 8.6 Gig. I have in fact dual booted but why do I not get a menu as I did when I dual booted Win98 and WinXP? Fedora core gives me 1 second to choose an O/S. How can I change this? Maxtor drives are fairly good in my opinion as well. The number of Western Digital drives I have slung is unbeleivable. Before I put the 8.6 Gig hard drive into my system I put in a fairly ancient Quantum Bigfoot in there. This still works but is only 2.1 Gigs |
Elephant (599) | ||
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