Maxtor Boasts "Biggest Hard Drives Yet"
Posted by Matthew on Tuesday March 23, 2004 @06:54PM
from the best-of-the-worst dept.
trmj writes: As a result of hard drive manufacturer Maxtor’s new “Return, Rebuild, Repackage” program, information has been released on their “biggest hard drives yet.” The drives weigh in at almost 17 lbs, and take up a full 5.25″ drive bay. Capacity ranges from 60 GB to an impressive 150 GB, and spin at 7200 RPMs.
At a press conference Thursday, a spokesman for the company offered the following explaination, “Ever wonder what manufacturers do with returns? Normally, they just throw away the junk, but we at Maxtor have found that we can resell ours! In a new manufacturing process, we take the working cylinders from our returned drives and stack them in a box with a sensor and a motor. Surprisingly, they even work when we’re done!”
When asked about Maxtor’s new return policy, the spokesman’s comment was less than promising: “As our new line of products are released, the warranty is only for Dead-On-Arrival products. We can only PR spin this s*** so far.”
