Seagate Hard Drive Settlement Now Online - Club CDFreaks

**platinumsword** · 24-10-2007

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With Cho v. Seagate Technology Holdings, Inc. wrapping up, Seagate customers who purchased a hard drive in OEM or retail packaging between the dates of March 22, 2001 and September 26, 2007 are eligible to receive one of two different settlement benefits per hard drive purchased:

Link: http://www.dailytech.com/A+Download+...rticle9385.htm

*debro* · 25-10-2007

Hard drive manufacturers are mis-representing the capacities by re-defining the standardised computer terms kilobyte/megabyte/gigabyte/etc as multiples of 10^3, where the computer industry defines them as multiples of 2^10. (1024), then claiming that significant amounts of the HDD space is used by OS's FAT's (or similar), whereas the filesystem overhead is significantly less than the difference between the stated capacity (x1000) & the actual capacity (2^10) (2.5%).

But then, where does this end. Transmission technologies are defined as megabits per second .... and are stated as per the 10^3 system also, rather than the 2^10 standard.

25-10-2007	#2 (permalink)
debro Blown to smitherines Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: The c@ke mixer Posts: 9,975	Re: Seagate Hard Drive Settlement Now Online Hard drive manufacturers are mis-representing the capacities by re-defining the standardised computer terms kilobyte/megabyte/gigabyte/etc as multiples of 10^3, where the computer industry defines them as multiples of 2^10. (1024), then claiming that significant amounts of the HDD space is used by OS's FAT's (or similar), whereas the filesystem overhead is significantly less than the difference between the stated capacity (x1000) & the actual capacity (2^10) (2.5%). But then, where does this end. Transmission technologies are defined as megabits per second .... and are stated as per the 10^3 system also, rather than the 2^10 standard. __________________ CDFreaks - Overwhelmed by Ignorance since 2005! We lost the battle, but we haven't lost the war! Click Here to sign up to the resistance movement! Viva La Resistance! Admitting that you've illegally downloaded movies/songs and need help to process/burn is comparable to robbing a bank, and walking into the bank the next day holding the bags of money to deposit them into your account. Don't be surprised if people laugh at you when you make the headlines.

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