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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 OneTouch II: a first look review
Reviews With the OneTouch II drive, Maxtor makes its already simple one-button backup even easier. Maxtor is certainly making it easier for less technical customers to 'set it and forget it'. Once the drive is connected and the software is configured via a...
[September 21, 2004, 9:45]
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 OneTouch III Turbo Edition review
Reviews The OneTouch III family departs from Maxtor's traditional silver-box design. The Maxtor Manager is a helpful utility for managing the OneTouch III Turbo Edition (RAID setup and so on), but we do have one beef.
[March 28, 2006, 8:50]
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 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 1394 External Storage review
Reviews The 1394 External Storage drive comes in Maxtor’s standard external enclosure, which achieves its compact 4.8 by 15.3 by 22cm size thanks to the use of an external power supply. This drive’s performance is respectable for an external unit -- its...
[May 22, 2002, 12:15]
Maxtor Personal Storage 3000LE review
Reviews Since LaCie's USB 2.0 product uses exactly the same hard disk as Maxtor's 3000LE (a 120GB Maxtor DiamondMax D540X-4G), the performance difference between these products must be down to the electronics that mediate between the hard drive itself and...
[May 22, 2002, 12:28]
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 OneTouch II (250GB) review
Reviews The latest OneTouch II is built around Maxtor's 3.5in. Over the course of two weeks, we gave the 300GB Maxtor OneTouch II a hard workout by transferring files, playing music and videos, and performing nightly backups.
[November 24, 2004, 8:55]
Maxtor OneTouch 160GB review
Reviews Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 hard drive that spins at 7,200rpm, includes 2MB of hardware cache and has a rated seek time of 9.3 milliseconds. Maxtor sells USB 2.0 OneTouch drives (for PCs, with 2MB of cache) in 80GB, 120GB, 160GB, 200GB and 250GB...
[September 13, 2004, 10:10]
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 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 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]
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]
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]
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]
