Western Digital picked up almost half of the Maxtor market share and benefited from the stronger prices.

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The mechanical components are readily available from disk drive makers, such as Maxtor.

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Last year, hard drive manufacturer Seagate admitted that some of its Maxtor drives were infected with an autorun variant.

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Runner-up: The Maxtor Shared Storage Plus represents the wave of the future of network storage, combining left-brain network backup with right-brain media serving with the hard disk already inside.

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