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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."
don't know what computer you were using, but you clearly weren't using one that does, you know, malloc(). in computer terms, yes, they are *1024, not 1000. a "gigabyte" is not an SI unit, like a gigagram. and yes, seagate is wrong because of that. it's not a freaking si unit, it's a computer unit. does megaman mean 1mil men? no, because it's not an si unit, it's a cartoon unit. does microshaft mean a tiny dick? well, yes when talking about yours. also a microbrain.
You seem stuck in a right or wrong mentality. No-one is wrong, the only that that is wrong is the prefixes, which can be fixed in the OS.
"Oh boy"
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!
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.