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Maxtor Loads Up Disk Platters
News Disk-drive company Maxtor says it has reached a milestone in devising cost-effective platters for a next-generation recording technology called perpendicular recording. With the new media and perpendicular recording technology, Maxtor said it is...
[October 13, 2003, 13:20]
Maxtor And EqualLogic Ally For ISCSI
News Adding momentum to a new disk-drive interface technology, Maxtor and storage-device maker EqualLogic said on Tuesday that they are teaming up to develop storage products using the serial-attached SCSI interface.
[September 24, 2003, 15:15]
Maxtor Creates One-touch Backup
Talkback As far as I can see I was taken in by what I thought was Maxtor's good reputation. Maxtor is using a FireWire 1394a chip at 400Mbps rather than the 1394b chip which goes at 800 to 1600 Mbps, and which is VERY AVAILABLE.
[August 28, 2004, 6:27]
Maxtor Withdraws From Network Storage Market
News Hard drive maker Maxtor has discontinued sales of a network storage system product line, citing a smaller-than-expected market and difficulties establishing a brand. Maxtor will lay off 230 employees as a result.
[August 16, 2002, 14:34]
Maxtor Loses Another CFO
News Disk drive maker Maxtor on Thursday said its chief financial officer has resigned, the second time this year the company has seen its CFO depart. Maxtor said Michael Bless, who became CFO on 23 August, quit "for personal reasons".
[October 15, 2004, 9:40]
Maxtor Creates One-touch Backup
News Hard-drive maker Maxtor wants to transform the pedestrian activity of backing up files into something racy. Maxtor's development of the feature reflects the growing need for hard-drive makers to explore new niches in their ultra-competitive market.
[October 11, 2002, 10:50]
Maxtor Beefs Up DiamondMax Drives
News Drive maker Maxtor on Thursday announced that it has begun shipping four new drives, including the high-capacity DiamondMax 16 and DiamondMax Plus 9 drives for top-of-the-line desktop PCs. The DiamondMax Plus 9 is Maxtor's highest-performance...
[September 5, 2002, 15:32]
Maxtor Dumps Open Source For Windows
News Maxtor has switched from the open-source FreeBSD version of Unix to a special-purpose version of Windows 2000 for a new storage system it introduced today. Maxtor chose it over the no-cost, open-source FreeBSD, the operating system used in the...
[March 6, 2001, 7:08]
Maxtor Deploys Blue Coat Proxy Appliances To Protect And Control Its Web Infrastructure
White Papers Maxtor Corporation is one of the world's leading suppliers of hard disk drives. Maxtor deployed Blue Coat WebFilter on Proxy SG appliances in conjunction with Web anti-virus software on ProxyAV appliances at gateway locations throughout its network...
[April 14, 2006, 0:00]
Maxtor Creates One-touch Backup
Talkback Maxtor does seem to be one of the better brands. Caveat emptor -- let the buyer beware. If you don't do your research then you can't blame anyone else. I train PC technicians and the only hard drive names I've heard consistently bashed are Fujitsu...
[September 1, 2004, 19:16]
Maxtor E-IDE Drives Go Up To 3.5Gb
News Maxtor Europe can be contacted by telephone on 01483-747356. The E-IDE drives use thin film heads and support PIO Mode 4 transfer rates of up to 16.7Mbps. The 4,500rpm drives use between one and four platters, have a 12ms seek time, and come with a...
[September 26, 1996, 14:03]
Seagate To Axe 6,000 Maxtor Workers
News Thousands of Maxtor employees face redundancy following the company's takeover by storage giant Seagate. Seagate announced on Monday that it had completed the $1.9bn (£1bn) takeover of Maxtor, following clearance from shareholders and regulators.
[May 23, 2006, 14:45]
Shareholders Clear Seagate's Maxtor Takeover
News Storage giant Seagate has moved closer to completing the takeover of Maxtor, after the shareholders of both firms approved the deal. It claims that swallowing Maxtor will result in greater efficiency and better, cheaper products for consumers.
[May 18, 2006, 16:35]
Seagate To Buy Maxtor
News Storage giant Seagate is buying rival Maxtor, in a deal worth $1.9bn (£1.08bn). Maxtor's board of directors has already accepted the offer, but it must first be approved by shareholders and regulators.
[December 21, 2005, 12:25]
Seagate To Buy Maxtor
Talkback Well they would say that. All I want to know is the roadmap for multi-TB drives.
[December 21, 2005, 18:39]
Maxtor Loads Up Disk Platters
Talkback That's good and cool.but anyway, when can user buy the product? nowadays, tech is changing daily, can the hard disk be more faster?
[July 12, 2005, 2:21]
Maxtor OneTouch II: A First Look
Talkback Greetings -- on first looks this seems very impressive and most importantly very easy to use despite the fact that it is slightly pricey. One point on which I am still slightly unclear is whether or not it will backup your whole system and not just...
[March 3, 2006, 14:48]
Seagate Wants To Help Digitise Your Lifestyle
News Later this month, Seagate Technology will close its earlier-announced $1.9bn (£1bn) acquisition of Maxtor. The Maxtor acquisition closes in May. Chief executive William Watkins sat down for a recent interview with ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com...
[May 8, 2006, 14:40]
Drive Doldrums Cost Jobs
News Following in the footsteps of rival Seagate Technology, Maxtor last Thursday announced job cuts amid worse-than-expected industry conditions. Maxtor said it would eliminate 400 to 500 positions and predicted a net loss for the second quarter, ended...
[July 5, 2004, 11:05]
Storage Firms Develop Extra Drives For DVR
News Maxtor and Seagate also say external hard drives can allow cable and satellite companies to lengthen the life of DVR boxes, which often are leased to consumers. Maxtor and Seagate Technology have plans to add external hard drives to DVRs in a bid...
[April 29, 2004, 9:05]
