What will Seagate's acquisition of Maxtor mean for hard drives?

[rachmaninoff]

[SOLVED] Seagate buys Maxtor

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051221/bs_nm/maxtor_seagate_dc

What will this mean for hard drives?

 

[iamsharpie]

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Either the Maxtor line survives as the Seagate "affordable solution" or Maxtor drives have a Seagate label slapped on them.

It won't bother me since I buy Western Digital.

 

[Sprinter]

i bought Hitachi

 

[Maxwell]

I exclusively buy Seagate HD's. I really hope this won't have effect on the quality of their products. I can't really think of any possible problems from this takeover, but I never really liked Maxtor.

 

[Integral]

Didn't Maxtor and Quantum merge just a few years ago?

 

[Anttech]

Another dog eats dog corporate IT move... I wish that these companies would stop eating there competitors...