Seagate to Purchase Maxtor

[Scott Stevens]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:16:04 -0600
"Julian Wolfe" <fireflyst at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Actually, I've been a Seagate man myself ever since I bought my
> first hard disk.  In fact, I don't own anything without a
> Seagate in it, even my PDP-11.
> 

Middle era Seagate drives (the ST-225 era) sound like a steel mill
running out of control.  Meaning, they are horrendously noisy. 
That teeth-grating 'Seagate sound' is very characteristic and one
can tell a machine has one of those drives lurking within just by
the sound.  My first hard drive, a Shugart 5-1/4" full height 5
meg drive, was one of the quietest I have ever owned.  I think it
was a model ST-506.