Re: Buying a Seagate hard drive? - note this....

The carbonbased lifeform Unruh inspired alt.os.linux with:
"Tyler W." <xxx> writes:

ac wrote:
I will not be buying seagate again for a looong time.

extract:
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The problem is to do with the power-saving systems on Seagate's latest
range of drives and the fact that it is shipped already formatted to
NTFS.

Reformatting is presumably trivial. What is the power saving problem? It

I wonder how much maxtor's paying MS for the "priviledge" of using NTFS,
and how much of that cost is transfered to the -unsuspecting- consumer.

would be surprizing since having people install new disk drivers does not
seem something that even windows people would do.

They just click 'yes, yes, install', like with everything they see.

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