[geeks] Seagate: changes afoot?

[Hicheal Morton]

seagate bought maxtor a few years back.

On 12/20/06, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
>
> Some observations releated to Seagate lately:
>
> I've used Barracuda drives for years, and found them reliable and also
> very quiet and with little vibration.
>
> Lately though, I've noticed a change: vibration. I first saw this 2-3
> years ago in someone else's 100GB Barracuda ATA drive, at the time quiet
> expensve. A slight vibration that wasn't audible. The drive still works
> last I heard, so it appears to not be harmful.
>
> I noticed because my 40GB Barracudas barely vibrate at all.
>
> In the last 6 months, I've picked up two 160GB Barracuda drives (ATA),
> both made in China, and they also vibrate. Not bad, but more than my
> other drives.
>
> Is this just a factor of the ever increasing drive sizes?  Does it
> really matter?
>
> My IBM Ultrastar drives were all noisy and vibrated a lot, but ran
> perfectly for 6 years without reliability issues.
>
> The new Barracudas are not vibrating enough to make noise, and once
> clamped into their mount they are whisper quiet.
>
> It's just an observation that made me curious.
>
> However, I am paranoid enough to worry that this could be quality drop
> rather than just larger drive sizes. For example, all of the drives that
> vibrate more are also made in China instead of Singapore. Of course, the
> sample size so far is three... :)
>
> Also, I recently saw a couple of Maxtor drives that have Seagate labels
> on them. I admit that is what really triggered me to start thinking
> about the recent increase in vibration level.
>
> Are those two companies merging, or is that just some kind of business
> deal they made?
>
> The drives were both called "Maxtor Basics".
>
> Just curious mostly, but it is always worthwhile to pay attention to
> things like this over time.
>
> --
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> low--And even the English, perchance their hour will come!"]
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