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Dean · 2005-02-23, 08:39 AM

It is funny how drive manufaturers eb and flow. Back in the days of 45 MEGABYTE hard drives, Seagate was just short of going under due to some huge QA & design issues. Quantum was the ruler then for some time. Then WD took over the Desktop world, followed by IBM, and then Maxtor came out of nowhere and swallowed up Quantum. Now it is kind of a crap shoot.

Seagate owns the SCSI world for the most part, though Fujitsu and recently Maxtor/Quantum is getting back in the game. WD embraced SATA first, and holds a commanding lead in performance SATA. Maxtor largely owns the retail consumer market. Hitachi, formerly IBM is making a run at them though.

All this says it is still a very competitive market where we all win. I remember paying about $500 for a used 5 MB 5.25 full height external hard drive for my Apple II+ about 25 or so odd years ago... Man I'm old...

2005-02-23, 08:39 AM	#15
Dean Señor Cheap Bastarde Real Name: Dean Join Date: May 2003 Location: $99 Tire Store Posts: 9,294 Car: $.04 STI Class: Fast,Cheap & Reliable=STI Deal, did somebody say Deal? Oh, Dean, yeah that's me.	It is funny how drive manufaturers eb and flow. Back in the days of 45 MEGABYTE hard drives, Seagate was just short of going under due to some huge QA & design issues. Quantum was the ruler then for some time. Then WD took over the Desktop world, followed by IBM, and then Maxtor came out of nowhere and swallowed up Quantum. Now it is kind of a crap shoot. Seagate owns the SCSI world for the most part, though Fujitsu and recently Maxtor/Quantum is getting back in the game. WD embraced SATA first, and holds a commanding lead in performance SATA. Maxtor largely owns the retail consumer market. Hitachi, formerly IBM is making a run at them though. All this says it is still a very competitive market where we all win. I remember paying about $500 for a used 5 MB 5.25 full height external hard drive for my Apple II+ about 25 or so odd years ago... Man I'm old... __________________ I am a Commodore PET --- Now get off my lawn you kids...