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| Thread ID: 84418 | 2007-11-04 21:14:00 | Seagate Offers Refunds on 6.2 Million Hard Drives | intel hunter (6666) | PC World Chat |
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| 608320 | 2007-11-04 21:14:00 | Quote 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." End Quote From IDG Computer World Apparently it's only for drives purchased March 22, 2001, and Dec. 31, 2005 but at least it's something. There is an online claim form here www.harddrive-settlement.com |
intel hunter (6666) | ||
| 608321 | 2007-11-04 21:23:00 | Ummm from what i hear it's only available in the US, and only for drives that were purchased from seagate or its authorised resellers | Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 608322 | 2007-11-04 21:38:00 | As all my Seagate drives hold about what I expected, I don't think I will bother to claim. I might feel a bit guilty, so I will stick to whinging about other things. :horrified | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 608323 | 2007-11-04 21:43:00 | Also a link to the original article would be good... BTW the claim form has no option for country, only state which are all USA states... Meaning as Nigel said, this looks to be USA only. |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 608324 | 2007-11-04 21:53:00 | Here's one (www.computerworld.com) I posted this link and the other in another post |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 608325 | 2007-11-05 01:52:00 | I think its just another example of US lawsuit fever. They all state their drives are 80Gb, 160GB, whatever. My 80Gb in Win Explorer says: 26,201, 112.576 53,796,569,088 which comes to 80GB. But if I look at the other bit: 24.4 50.1 It doesn't. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 608326 | 2007-11-05 04:45:00 | Gee, some people are picky ! Most people know that hard drives never hold exactly what they say they do. If you have a motherboard that takes 2meg of Ram and you put two megs of Ram in it, it cannot address the full 2 megs ! Its a fact of life / maths etc and cornflakes packets are not full either ! Regards Digby |
Digby (677) | ||
| 608327 | 2007-11-05 05:04:00 | I think its just another example of US lawsuit fever. They all state their drives are 80Gb, 160GB, whatever. My 80Gb in Win Explorer says: 26,201, 112.576 53,796,569,088 which comes to 80GB. But if I look at the other bit: 24.4 50.1 Its all to do with sizing of bytes /Mb etc, as Pcteck points out, if you add the bytes it comes to the correct size. On the lighter side - I have a 160 drive, Do I have to give some back (www.imagef1.net.nz) its reading more than 160 :lol: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 608328 | 2007-11-05 05:23:00 | Its all to do with sizing of bytes /Mb etc, as Pcteck points out, if you add the bytes it comes to the correct size. On the lighter side - I have a 160 drive, Do I have to give some back (www.imagef1.net.nz) its reading more than 160 :lol: :lol: Seagate will be contacting you soon... |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 608329 | 2007-11-05 05:46:00 | I wonder if they'll start selling drives with proper labelling now then? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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