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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. Also quite annoying. by rkz · · Score: 1, Troll

    You always find that after the filesystem is on a drive that it is even smaller.

    It would be better for Hard Drive manufacturers to quote the size after formatting and installing a filesystem to avoid confusion.

    Seriously how much is an extra gig or 2 going to cost them?

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