Neowin News Feed for: Maxtor

Seagate offers Maxtor OneTouch with 1.5TB

Jerry Grey — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:32:13 +0000

Thanks goes to slimy for the heads up.. Seagate Technology announced today that it will ship a 1.5TB version of its Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo Edition external hard disk drive. The new drive ships... Read more...

Seagate, Maxtor Merger Approved by Shareholders

Thu, 18 May 2006 16:41:22 +0000

After a deal was reported to be in the works months ago, shareholders for both Seagate and Maxtor have approved a merger of the hard drive giants. Under the deal, Seagate will acquire Maxtor,... Read more...

Seagate agrees to buy Maxtor

Steven Parker — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:46:23 +0000

Computer disk drive supplier Seagate Technology has agreed to buy rival Maxtor Corp. for $1.9 billion in stock, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The paper... Read more...

Fake Maxtor Drives Reported in Japan

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:48:45 +0000

According to local press, forged Maxtor MaXLine II hard disk drives have been making their way into the Japanese market. Alleged fakes feature a 320GB capacity while Maxtor only produces 250GB and 300GB varieties... Read more...

Maxtor Announces Half-Terrabyte Hard Drives

Steven Parker — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:34:58 +0000

Maxtor has announced that it will begin shipping 500GB ATA/133 and Serial ATA hard drives in the third quarter of this year. The half-terabyte drives will spin at 7,200RPM and be available across Maxtor's QuickView,... Read more...

Neowin Review: Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB Hard Drive

Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:49:49 +0000

After our very own Tom Graham reviewed some portable hard drives, today we'll have a look at a Desktop counterpart by Maxtor. The massive 250GB DiamondMax 10. As large hard drives are becoming of an... Read more...

Maxtor ups desktop, enterprise HDD warranty periods

Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:03:06 +0000

Hard drive maker Maxtor has followed rival manufacturer Seagate and upped the duration of the warranty it offers for enterprise-class drives. The company also increased the warranty period for internal desktop PC drives to three... Read more...

Maxtor reveals GITEX plans

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:08:40 +0000

Hard disk drive (HDD) vendor Maxtor will whisk its partners and customers away from the hustle and bustle of the GITEX exhibition floor this year. The company plans to use the relative calm of an... Read more...

Maxtor announced the third generation of MaXLine

Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:43:32 +0000

After announcing the plan for wireless hard drive, Maxtor has launched the follow-up to its MaXLine products with MaXLine III. MaXLine III is a high capacity storage that employs the native SATA technology as well... Read more...

Maxtor, Linksys to unveil wireless hard drive

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 05:58:27 +0000

If hard-drive maker Maxtor and networking company Linksys have their way, your external hard drive is about to become very external. On Tuesday, the companies announced a partnership featuring a $99 Linksys device... Read more...

Maxtor To Ship External Hard Drive For PVRs

Wed, 28 Apr 2004 02:50:11 +0000

Maxtor Corp. said Tuesday that it will ship an external hard drive specifically designed to connect to personal video recorders. Although the Maxtor QuickView Expander hard drive will eventually ship in retail, the... Read more...

Maxtor champions 6 stream DVRs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:02:13 +0000

Maxtor and Scientific Atlanta last week attracted column inches on their plans for the next generation of DVRs, due for release in about 18 months. But what exactly are they talking about when they boast... Read more...

Maxtor Starts Selling The Worlds Largest HDD

Tom Warren — Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:02:49 +0000

Thanks xStainDx for posting this in our Back Page News Maxtor has begun to sell its world's largest MaXLine II HDDs in Japan and possibly some other countries. The devices boast... Read more...

Maxtor CEO resigns to lead Selectron

Tue, 07 Jan 2003 06:46:30 +0000

Hard drive maker Maxtor announced Monday that its chief executive, Mike Cannon, is stepping down to take over as CEO at manufacturing giant Solectron. The resignation is effective immediately, according to... Read more...

Maxtor goes large with external HDDs

Tue, 05 Feb 2002 12:05:22 +0000

Maxtor is inching its way into Iomega territory, by tripling the disk size for its Personal Storage 3000LE USB 2.0 external hard drive line. The latest 120GB model ships in the US... Read more...

Littlewhitedog reviews Promise and Maxtor

Steven Parker — Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:13:45 +0000

Littlewhitedog has just completed a very comprehensive review of Promise's Ultra133 TX2 controller and Maxtor's D740X-6L hard drive. While these components may bring the ATA133 drive standard to your system, are they really needed?... Read more...

Maxtor intros monster drives

Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:54:30 +0000

Maxtor this week began volume shipments of a very big, very fast hard drive (HDD) and announced a even bigger, and even faster HDD, supposedly the biggest and fastest the world has ever seen. ... Read more...