Hard Drive Makers to Merge

The proposed merger of Seagate and Maxtor would bring together two of the largest hard drive companies and is worth approximately $1.9 billion.

Two of the largest hard drive manufacturers today announced a planned merger worth $1.9 billion. Subject to obtaining shareholder approval as well as regulatory, the combined company would find Seagate acquiring Maxtor.

Under the terms of the deal, Maxtor shareholders would receive .37 shares of Seagate stock for each share of Maxtor they own. Seagate said the combined company

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  1. Ian Bell and Dan Gaul at 1:55pm 26th December 2005 Based on the user reviews it would seem like Seagate makes the better, more reliable drives. I hope that Maxtor adopts this process, or at least uses Seagates manufacturing facilities.

    BTW why are blogging always trying to leech our traffic? All that "Johnny" has on his site is a paragraph of summarized information with a ton of ads surrounding it. Get a real job people!
  2. fungku at 1:42pm 26th December 2005 Hopefully seagates drives wont start to sux0rs
  3. johnny at 5:38am 26th December 2005 The news is great about merging of the two HardDrive gaints Maxtor and Seagate. Lets see the results of the these companies. I think they produce cheap hard drives in comming years. check out my blogs http://cheap-laptop-review.blogspot.com and http://blog-magic.blogspot.com
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