Seagate Technology LLC has shipped Maxtor disk drives that contain Trojan horses that upload data to a pair of Chinese Web sites, the Taiwanese government’s security service warned this weekend. The ...

Not that anyone in a machine shop ever uses his computer to play games, but just in case… Seagate, the manufacturer of Maxtor hard disc drives, is warning all those ...

With Maxtor being under financial pressure over the past couple of years due to a string of quarterly losses and manufacturing problems which resulted in having to shut down production for a short ...

Maxtor has switched from the open-source FreeBSD version of Unix to a special-purpose version of Windows 2000 for a new storage system it's introducing Monday. The company's new MaxAttach 4100 uses a ...

In a string of announcements over the past week, storage giant Maxtor (408/432-1700, www.maxtor.com) has updated its hard drive product line with new external FireWire and internal ATA drives ranging ...

Maxtor on Monday began shipping its 531DX family of devices. With these new drives, the storage giant is not targeting size or speed — Maxtor is going for reliability. This drive family will be the ...

Three years ago, a January Storage Insider column focused on a big and, at that time, stunning acquisition in the disk drive market segment. The deal essentially translated into IBM selling its disk ...

Computer disk drive maker Seagate Technology said Monday that it would cut about 6,400 jobs after it completed its purchase of competitor Maxtor Corp. for $1.9 billion. About half of Maxtor’s 12,800 ...

Maxtor Corp. and Quantum Corp.’s Hard Disk Drive Group, today announced that they will merge their disk manufacturing companies in what is believed to be the single largest such company in the world.

Maxtor Corp., which makes computer disk drives, will eliminate 5,500 jobs in Singapore as it closes a factory there and shifts some production to China. The Milpitas, Calif., company said that more ...