wow...seagate bought maxtor

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:30 pm

http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/21/seag ... 2-billion/

hopefully seagate extends its warranty coverage to all maxtor drives...that would be nice.

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:33 pm

that is good news, Western digital watch out.

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:41 pm

That is good news. I used to buy Maxtors, but not since they offered only a 12 month warranty. When I built my rig last year, I switched to Seagate with their 5 yr warranty. Both 120 gig drives work great and I never had an issue with them.

The only downside to this: less choices for consumers which might lead to price increases? Personally, I rather spend a few extra bucks and get a quality built drive. That is why I still use SCSI to this day. I never had a SCSI drive fail on me, but IDE is a different story. Can't comment on SATA since I don't use them.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 7:00 am

Heh, here's a great headline from FARK:

Seagate to buy Maxtor for $1.9B after instant rebate, mail-in rebate and $15M off $75M coupon

DoPeY5007 · Post by **DoPeY5007** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:50 am

Originally posted by FlyingPenguin
Heh, here's a great headline from FARK:

That is Great!!!

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:20 pm

Seagate always has done good by me, never had a drive of theirs fail yet, with other manufacturers, its another story.