[ale] Seagate Acquires Maxtor

[James Sumners]

Seagate acquired Maxtor a long time ago. In response to the question,
I think it has gone the other way. I RMAed a 160GB 7200RPM, with 8MB
cache, Seagate drive on July 25th. The drive arrived at their
warehouse on the 27th. The didn't send me a replacement drive until
the 18th of this month. When I got the replacement drive on the 22nd I
didn't even break the seal on the antistatic bag before I had to get
another RMA. They sent me a 140GB drive! The person I spoke to said he
would ship me an advance replacement, with a return label for the
140GB drive, at no cost. They still haven't shipped the appropriate
drive to me. I will be calling them after class to find out what is
going on. If they are "out of stock" I am going to request a return
label and a check for the market value of the drive. I'll just go buy
a Western Digital drive. I've been without my Linux box for over a
month now.

On 8/28/06, Watson, Keith R. <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> Seagate Acquires Maxtor
> http://www.seagate.com/newsinfo/invest/annualreport/seagate_acquires.htm
> l
>
> http://tinyurl.com/eof9d
>
> Does this mean that Maxtor drives may actually become reliable?
>
> keith
>
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