Pretty big news on the hard drive front today: Seagate is buying Maxtor. The bulk of the drives we sell are made by one of these two companies. So this could either mean increased innovation in the drive world, or increased prices due to less competition. Or even both.
Maxtor had most of the early business in DVR hard drives – early on under the Quantum company which they bought in October 2000 (for just a bit less than Seagate is paying for Maxtor now). For the entire first generation of standalone and DirecTV TiVos, Maxtor/Quantum made all of the drives. But that has changed, and all TiVo DVRs today ship with either Western Digital or Seagate drives from the factory. Maxtor hasn’t been able to keep the price competitive apparently. We’ll see what the future holds.
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Maxgate (and RAF vs. large monkey)
In today’s IT Blogwatch, we look at Seagate’s aggressive move to purchase Maxtor. Not to mention helping the RAF’s Captain Suave battle a Large Monkey and rescue Dr. Hillary Lovely …