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Alien 02-11-2007 18:13
About time something like this happened!
 
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Seagate has agreed to settle a lawsuit that alleges that the company mislead customers by selling them hard disk drives with less capacity than the company advertised. The suit states that Seagate's use of the decimal definition of the storage capacity term "gigabyte" was misleading and inaccurate: whereby 1GB = 1 billion bytes. In actuality, 1GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes — a difference of approximately 7% from Seagate's figures. Seagate is saying it will offer a cash refund or free backup and recovery software.
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Web-Junkie 02-11-2007 20:28
Re: About time something like this happened!
 
Saw that on CD Freaks, I have two Seagate drives and want my compensation dammit!

Anonymouse 02-11-2007 21:08
Re: About time something like this happened!
 
But they all do that. Every drive I've ever had, regardless of manufacturer, has reported less capacity than that stated, even allowing for the space the drive itself needs.

Tezcatlipoca 02-11-2007 21:17
Re: About time something like this happened!
 
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Originally Posted by Anonymouse (Post 34426529)
But they all do that. Every drive I've ever had, regardless of manufacturer, has reported less capacity than that stated, even allowing for the space the drive itself needs.
Indeed.


Also, Seagate (& the rest) are actually using the accepted SI definition where a "Gigabyte" is decimal.


Binary GB should technically be "Gibibyte" (Giga binary byte).

homealone 02-11-2007 21:27
Re: About time something like this happened!
 
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Originally Posted by Matt D (Post 34426530)
Indeed.


Also, Seagate (& the rest) are actually using the accepted SI definition where a "Gigabyte" is decimal.


Binary GB should technically be "Gibibyte" (Giga binary byte).
"computer programmers don't byte, but they might nibble, a bit"

- not mine, it's too good ;)

Alien 02-11-2007 22:35
Re: About time something like this happened!
 
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Originally Posted by Matt D (Post 34426530)
Also, Seagate (& the rest) are actually using the accepted SI definition where a "Gigabyte" is decimal.


Binary GB should technically be "Gibibyte" (Giga binary byte).
That's the IT equivalent of political correctness. MB/GB has always been binary, not SI. The only people who use the SI versions are dishonest companies [e.g. making HDDs sound bigger than they are] & the IT equivalent of the political correct crowd.

homealone 02-11-2007 23:29
Re: About time something like this happened!
 
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Originally Posted by Alien (Post 34426565)
That's the IT equivalent of political correctness. MB/GB has always been binary, not SI. The only people who use the SI versions are dishonest companies [e.g. making HDDs sound bigger than they are] & the IT equivalent of the political correct crowd.
it is 'caveat emptor' though - or it used to be, however when that happened a 'big' hard disk was 20,000,000 bytes, so comparison was easier ;)

my first hard drive at work was 10MB - 10,000,000 bytes, it seemed massive, then - I wish I still had it because it was so massive 5¼" wide & about 2¼" thick,that it made a great door stop ;)

-<edit>
an IBM XT with cga graphics :dozey:

danielf 03-11-2007 00:03
Re: About time something like this happened!
 
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Originally Posted by Matt D (Post 34426530)
Binary GB should technically be "Gibibyte" (Giga binary byte).
Geekybyte seems more appropiate... ;)

DocDutch 03-11-2007 00:37
Re: About time something like this happened!
 
omg this will be bad for all companies that are making any form of storage....Microsoft always "maintained" the 1gb = 1024mb calculation....but then the hardware didnt... I wonder how many other companies are going to feel this 1 soon.


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