Maxtor drives now rebadged Seagates?

Roll · 5 Apr 2008 at 23:08

Just a quick question, and sorry if this has been asked before.

I've recently bought a couple of Maxtor Diamondmax 21 drives and was surprised that externally they look identical to the Seagate Barracuda drives I have.

I know that Seagate bought Maxtor a while back, so wondered if some recent Maxtor drives may now be rebadged Seagates (or at least they borrow heavily from Seagate technology)?

It would be interesting if anyone knows.

Thanks

fobose · 5 Apr 2008 at 23:34

I would believe so. I bought a maxtor 21 250GB and the product code looks very similiar to a seagate drive AND it says "7200.10" on it so I would think so. I paid £32 for it, cant complain really as its completly silent in the antec solo case which its in and gets gets around 80MB/s in HD tune

Roll · 5 Apr 2008 at 23:47

Cheers, that confirms what I thought. Looks like Seagate may be using the Maxtor brand as it's budget/value range of drives?

Anyway, after all the horror stories of their drives failing it seems like it's safe now to buy a Maxtor

ih8modem · 6 Apr 2008 at 00:46

Roll said:
Cheers, that confirms what I thought. Looks like Seagate may be using the Maxtor brand as it's budget/value range of drives?

Anyway, after all the horror stories of their drives failing it seems like it's safe now to buy a Maxtor

Had a 3yr old Maxtor 160GB fail today .... GRRRR (it was packed away for 2.5 years after being a replacement for another failure. I didn't want to risk it at the time and discovered it sealed about 2 months ago. I should have just thrown the damn thing away way back then, the e-tailer had refused to refund me at the time.)

Seagate are wise to scrap that brand. (If that's what they are doing).

v0n · 8 Apr 2008 at 03:52

Seagate was legendary for HDD failures all the way back to Amiga times (or am I thinking Conner?). I do however remember with 100% certainty SCSI drives in raid array for sun box, you would put new Seagate replacements in caddies, switch them on and they would go so hot after one hour the metal lids were literally changing colours through all shades of the rainbow almost like they were about to be welded to the chasis.

Come to think of it every single manufacturer had massive issues at some point. Maxtors good name perished when they took over Quantum. Quantums at that stage were so bad they would start springy sound of failed bearings if you looked at them hard for long enough. Dare I remind you guys of BIGFOOT? Oh my god, 5 and 1/2 inches of pure badness...

Corasik · 8 Apr 2008 at 05:38

Think it was conner that had issues in the days of the Amiga. Your not wrong about the early 7200 SCSI seagates in Suns though, the black seagate Baracuda 2Gb drives were amazingly hot.

ih8modem · 8 Apr 2008 at 08:24

v0n said:
Dare I remind you guys of BIGFOOT? Oh my god, 5 and 1/2 inches of pure badness...

I still actually have one of those. Despite being renowned for failure, the damn thing is still working after about 9 years.

amkan13 · 8 Apr 2008 at 16:51

Roll said:
Cheers, that confirms what I thought. Looks like Seagate may be using the Maxtor brand as it's budget/value range of drives?

Anyway, after all the horror stories of their drives failing it seems like it's safe now to buy a Maxtor

i have a 12yr old maxtor drive and a 8 yr old maxtor drive still working. maybe im just lucky!!!

PhillyDee · 8 Apr 2008 at 17:09

v0n said:
Dare I remind you guys of BIGFOOT? Oh my god, 5 and 1/2 inches of pure badness...

Yes. My 1gb drive failed 11 months and 3 weeks in the warranty. Got it replaced with a 5gb drive. The tech bloke admitted that they knew of the failures but the chances were that it would fail out of warranty so they didnt recall them.

KillBoY_UK · 8 Apr 2008 at 17:18

v0n said:
Seagate was legendary for HDD failures all the way back to Amiga times (or am I thinking Conner?). I do however remember with 100% certainty SCSI drives in raid array for sun box, you would put new Seagate replacements in caddies, switch them on and they would go so hot after one hour the metal lids were literally changing colours through all shades of the rainbow almost like they were about to be welded to the chasis.

Come to think of it every single manufacturer had massive issues at some point. Maxtors good name perished when they took over Quantum. Quantums at that stage were so bad they would start springy sound of failed bearings if you looked at them hard for long enough. Dare I remind you guys of BIGFOOT? Oh my god, 5 and 1/2 inches of pure badness...

Yep i had the 4.3gb monster in my p200 MMX days , had it till i got a then brand new 120gb Westen Digital SE what a upgrade lol the big foot is knocking about someware