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Seagate Offers Refunds on 6.2 Million Hard Drives

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the making-things-right dept.

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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  1. Re:SI units by IWannaBeAnAC · · Score: 0, Troll

    LOL, your troll-fu is weak. Quibbling over k vs K is silly. Kelvins is a base unit, not a prefix. I don't recall ever seeing the 'kilo' prefix in a unit that also had a Kelvin in it, and conversely I've never seen a k or K written where it wasn't immediately obvious from the context whether kilo or Kelvin was intended. Try again!

  2. Re:Think this will set precedent? by cheater512 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Its deliberately misleading. Simple as that.

    Plus I want my 120gig (base 2 measurement) which they are stealing from me.
    It adds up very quickly.