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Computer Makers Sued Over Hard Drive Size

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the yep-size-still-matters dept.

FPCat writes "Finally, some one is doing something about one of my pet peeves. It seems a group of people are suing Apple, Dell, Gateway, HP, and others for misleading consumers about hard disk sizes. About time someone spoke up and said '1000 MB != 1 GB'" It's not much of a mystery to anyone who's up on industry practices, but it's similar to the way graphic displays are sized, cereal boxes are filled, and so on. Andy Rooney could have a field day with this one.

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  1. Re:Also quite annoying. by ComputerSlicer23 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Uhhh, hate to point out the obvious, but I'm going to anyways....

    Would that be after you formatted the drive with NTFS, FAT32?

    Would that be with ext2 or ext3?

    When formatted with ext2 or ext3, what's the block size? How many inodes? How many duplicate super blocks? In the case of ext3, how large is the journal?

    How many files will be stored on it? What will the average file size be? In the case of reiserfs do you use tail packing?

    How did you partition the drive? Which style of partitioning did you use?

    Is it part of a RAID array? Is it part of an LVM volume group?

    There are a lot of factors that affect the size available space on a harddrive. The only thing they can control is the size of the raw filesystem.

    Kirby

  2. MOD PARENT INSIGHTFUL. THE REST OF YOU SUCK. by rokzy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "They'll say "look, it's got 512MB of RAM and 80 GB hard drive space," but that is actually 536,870,912 bytes vs. 80,000,000,000 bytes (which is closer to 74.5 GB). And that is some good ground to sue on."

    this is probably the most insightful point in the whole thread.

    everything else should be modded redundant or retarded.

  3. Re:It's not the size of your disk by metlin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Gee! Yeah yeah... thats what all ye' guys with them smaller ones keep saying.

    Grow up :-p

  4. Re:It's not the size of your disk by jigyasubalak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You don't mean Hard Diks, instead. do you?

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  5. At least my disk is still HARD by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 0, Redundant


    No, 80GB isn't really a BIG SIZE disk, but at least mine is REALLY HARD .

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    Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !