Talk:Maxtor

message: Western Digital, Iomega, Seagate, and all these guys have a list of competitors on their Wikipedia article. Pretty standard section for a Wiki on a big company.
Can we start one for Maxtor?
*Quantum
*Western Digital
*Adaptec
More?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.76.124.126 (talk) 23:59, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no Competitors? 

message: Maxtor is still the best supplier for quality hard disk drives and leading technology. I have a bunch of different Maxtor models, collected over the years, running without any problems.
Further the low cost service hotline provides best of class customer support according to some technical enquiries i placed in the past.
Maxtor remains my first choice!!! --83.141.80.138 23:44, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:   You should play the lottery since it seems you have exceptional luck.  I believe "Maxtor" come from the Latin for "Crap won't last six months"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.181.253.68 (talk) 09:21, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Their quality has fallen dramatically SINCE being acquired by seagate, I got a new maxtor HDD not realising they'd been acquired and it broke after 3 months, although my OLD HDD's that were Maxtor never had a problem... 82.34.113.51 (talk) 19:50, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pro

message: I was under the impression that Maxtor is now totally gone and replaced by Seagate, however it is still listed as a subsidiary of Seagate... I have no proof to prove my point (except for the Maxtor page being gone  , so any input is appreciated.
Nabeel_co 06:51, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears that Seagate will be using the Maxtor name as a consumer brand.  See: http://maxtorsolutions.com -- Austin Murphy 21:25, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yeah, I was surprised to still see new Maxtor products (namely external hard disks) still for sale recently. --Zilog Jones 22:10, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

text:  As far as I can tell, the "new" Maxtor is just a brand, being positioned at the "value" market. The new DiamondMax 20 and 21 are relabelled Seagates, and Maxtor's high-end SCSI stuff (which was inherited from Quantum in any case) isn't even advertised anymore. -lee 04:21, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I heard something about that Seagate labels his "value" HDD (low cost, low realibility), so people gonna buy it (true, I saw it many times) because "Maxtor is the best !" and they relabelled the best Maxtor's products "Seagate", in order to make people think Seagate is the best of the best. True ? (Klem, 193.49.48.244 (talk) 14:42, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should Maxtor still be listed as an active company? 

message: The hostile takeover of Solectron by Flextronics is very similar to what happened to Maxtor Corporation. Mike Cannon was CEO of Maxtor for a while, then left for Solectron. Paul Tufano was "interim CEO" for a while. Soon after that Maxtor was bought out by Seagate.  Mike Cannon was CEO of Selectron, followed by Tufano as "interim CEO" of Solectron prior to their acquisition.  Might be worth noting in the article. IbnFadlan 22:13, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History Repeats 

message: I am trying to research Maxtor being owned by Hyndai for a period of time in the 1990's? -- IrishDragon (talk • contribs) 18:04, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's true, although Hyundai didn't own 100% of Maxtor.  Maxtor was in serious financial trouble in 1992-1993, flirting with insolvency, and was looking for a cash infusion.  They thought they had found it in Hyundai, who reportedly purchased 40% of Maxtor stock for $150 million and a stake in management in late 1993.  Hyundai was trying to get out of the unprofitable PC/AT clone business and move into the lucrative high-end workstation business, and they needed a captive hard drive supplier.  In the fall of 1993, Maxtor management, headed by then-CEO Laurence "Larry" Hootnik, decided to stake the company's future on the "Racer" series of commodity drives, designed at the former Miniscribe facility in Longmont, Colorado, and to shut down engineering operations at the headquarters location in San Jose, California. The deal with Hyundai became effective on February 4, 1994 and the engineering talent was ushered out the door wholesale on February 7.  Unfinished designs were left in a poorly documented state, and it didn't take long for Hyundai to realize that they were holding an empty bag:  They needed the high-end drives from San Jose for their workstations, not the low-end drives from Longmont. I'm not sure when they dumped their interest in Maxtor, but it probably happened sometime in 1994 or 1995.  We heard later that Hootnik was asked to leave in June 1994 and was given $3 million as a parting gift.  Go figure. —QuicksilverT @ 20:05, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Owned by Hyundai? 

message: When I worked at Maxtor there was an in-house MaxOptix development operation on River Oaks Parkway in San Jose, California, that eventually moved out and became an independent spin-off, manufacturing 5.25-inch magneto-optical drives.  There should be a mention of this in the article.  The MaxOptix logo was originally in the same font and shade of blue that Maxtor Corporation used for its logo.  MaxOptix still exists as a brand, although it is now headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has changed owners a few times.  Sorry, I don't know the dates that MaxOptix was incorporated or spun off, but it would have been around 1990-1991, if memory serves. —QuicksilverT @ 00:54, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  MaxOptix connection 

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