Seagate Offers Refunds on 6.2 Million Hard Drives

An anonymous reader writes "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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WRONG, they have not

[SmallFurryCreature]

They only started using base 10 relatively recently. I can't tell you the exact date things started to change, somewhere in the 90's but I am 100% certain that the first HD's for home computing labelled in base 2. They had to offcourse because it is only logical as EVERYONE else used that as well.

Then some marketting genius probably noticed that their new disk was just shy of somemagic number in base 2, but reached it in base 10. But in the early days HD makers simply respected convention.

Re:RTFM

[ichthyoboy]

Kind of like how irregardless is not an acceptable word by most major dictionaries?