Apparently, the two companies have amended the initial agreement as Seagate currently offers four Samsung-branded products for consumers. Under the initial agreement, Seagate had rights to use the Samsung trademark for hard drives for 12 months following the buyout.
In fact, it is surprising to see that Seagate still uses the Samsung brand for hard drive products about five years after the acquisition of Samsung’s HDD business.
Both of the DAS devices are also known as the Samsung M3 as well as the Samsung D3 Station which are available worldwide today. After Seagate took the company over in 2006, it did ship Maxtor-branded internal and external drives for a couple of years (in fact, external storage was a strong side of Maxtor), but eventually the trademark was dropped.Įarlier this year Seagate decided to start using the Maxtor brand again to sell its M3 and D3 Station external storage products. Maxtor faced severe financial troubles for the most part of its history, and after it was acquired it was also plagued by quality problems as well as controversial management decisions. In the early 2000s, Maxtor was the largest maker of HDDs in the world after its acquisition of HDD division from Quantum, but its advantages somewhat diminished by the middle of the decade due to various reasons, such as the lack of a comprehensive lineup of 2.5” hard drives in the product stack. Maxtor was a major maker of hard drives that was founded in 1982 and acquired by Seagate in 2006. Right now, it is unclear for how long Seagate plans to use the trademark, which it has not touched for quite a while. At present, the company offers the Maxtor M3 and the Maxtor D3 Station DAS devices, which it also sells under the Samsung name (yes, you read that right - click here for proof). Seagate has quietly started to sell Maxtor-branded external storage devices in various countries. In the coming months the company plans to phase-out its inexpensive Samsung-branded products and Maxtor will take their place.
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UPDATE 12/1 9AM: Seagate confirmed Thursday that it decided to revive the Maxtor brand in a bid to sell value products.
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