Maxtor Corporation
| Maxtor Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1982 |
| resolution | December 21, 2005 |
| Reason for dissolution | Takeover by Seagate |
| Seat |
Milpitas , California United States
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| management | James McCoy, Jack Swartz, and Raymond Niedzwiecki (founders) |
| Number of employees | 13,500 (2005) |
| sales | US $ 3.8 billion (2004) |
| Branch | Hard drives |
| Website | maxtor.com |
| Status: 2005 | |
Maxtor Corporation was a hard drive manufacturer headquartered in Milpitas , California that has been part of Seagate since 2005 .
history
The Maxtor Corporation was founded in 1982 and rose to one of the largest manufacturers of hard disks with the takeover of the hard disk division of Quantum (October 2000) and MMC Technology (September 2001). In 2004 Maxtor had sales of $ 3.8 billion.
In 2005, Maxtor was ranked fourth in terms of sales (after Seagate , Western Digital, and Hitachi ). At the time, Maxtor employed around 13,500 people worldwide.
On December 21, 2005, the company was bought by then competitor Seagate in a share swap with a volume of approximately 1.9 billion US dollars .
The Maxtor brand was retained for the time being. In spite of this, all the hard drives subsequently referred to as Maxtor were merely relabeled Seagate models with the corresponding “Maxtor firmware ”, recognizable by the model names STMxxxxxxA and z. B. Diamond Max 21 .
In 2007, the company attracted attention because of its virus-infected hard drives. Kaspersky announced in September of the same year that the entire product range that was current at the time, including digital picture frames, could be infected.
swell
- ↑ heise online: Seagate remains loyal to the Maxtor brand
- ↑ heise News: USB hard drives delivered with a virus
- ↑ Chip.de: Security Trends 2008 ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
