Seagate and Maxtor Merge
This was announced on 12/21/2005 but I didn’t see it posted anywhere else so I figured I’d toss it up. SeagateMaxtor.com
Remarkably, both of these huge companies are located in Longmont, Colorado just mere miles from each other (and my house…)
I haven’t dug through the details yet, but lets hope Seagate’s quality (5 year warranty) is not affected by the merge (Maxtor offers 1 year warranties - my most recent drive failure was a 250GB Maxtor in a LaCie firewire…grrrrrr).
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On a side note: Why do Seagate Firewire enclosures only come with a 1 year warranty while the 3.5″ drives bought singularly are issued with a 5 year?
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Pingback on January 2, 2007 @ 8:29 am
no kidding about the warranties crap! Thats why its best to buy a 5 yr warranty Seagate + external enclosure for $20-50 and if it dies, take it out, send it in, voila new drive! Btw i’ve lost 5 out of 11 external hard drives in the last 5 years, amounting to 2 TB of data so far. I only use external drives for backup anymore, anything else is unwise. My most recent lost was a WD passport 80gb drive, which also had a 1yr warranty on it and died 2 weeks after the warranty went out. These 2.5″ drives are supposed to be considerably more rugged than their 3.5″ counterparts, thus the higher price and why they’re in laptops.. and i frequently work on my laptop whilst in the train, airplane, in my backpack (rendering something while i’m going somewhere) etc. and never had a problem yet in 5 years! Go figure.
Comment on January 3, 2007 @ 9:09 am