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[Nvyseal]

images/news/hardware.jpgIt looks like those that bought a Seagate hard drive in the past few years could possibly be in store for a few freebies or a bit of cash, at least if a proposed class action settlement goes ahead. According to a recently-launched website for the settlement, the suit centers on alleged misleading sales and marketing by Seagate, which stated that "purchasers of the drives would receive approximately 7% more usable storage capacity than they actually received." To make up for that allegedly egregious offense, the settlement proposes that anyone who purchased a drive between March 22nd, 2001 and September 26, 2007 (which wasn't pre-installed in a system) receive either some free backup and recovery software or a cash payment equivalent to five percent of the price paid for the hard drive. To get in on that potential windfall, however, you'll have to sign yourself up as part of the class action on the website linked below, where you can also opt out of the suit if you so choose.

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[Visentinel]

Well im not interested in sueing my favourite hard drive company but i do luagh at how i buy a 320gb hard drive that actually has 298gb of space.

[hog]

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five percent of the price paid for the hard drive

5% of a 100$ HDD isn't really worth it IMO though it could get worse if several hundreds of thousands of buyers join the class action (although I really doubt it).

[Christopholofigus]

I hate class action suites with no premise. Sheeze. I think that my health care provider should be sued for not recommending that i stay out of the sun <- pretty stupid and pointless, but just you watch, someone will try it.

[banj0]

Is this one of those "8bits in a byte" things that f's up the general pub into thinking they bought a 100gb drive when they really bought a 97.6gb HD? That pisses me off too but it's been going on for years now and by every HD manufacturer. Isn't it common knowledge now that 1gb in non-geek speak = 1000mb instead of 1024mb?

If you know what you're doing with computers, this is not an issue as it has been going on for a long time. If you don't know what you're doing with computers, the 'powers of 10' thing makes sense and you shouldn't be able to sue about it. It's kinda win-win for everybody.

But this idea that the word 'gigabyte' is pronounced "Gig-A-Byte" rather than "Jig-A-Byte" needs to stop. I'm thinking about suing......

[hog]

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But this idea that the word 'gigabyte' is pronounced "Gig-A-Byte" rather than "Jig-A-Byte" needs to stop.

Seriously, what's the correct pronounciation?

[WFO]

The lawyers will make money while most consumers won't bother with the paper work. I could get about $30. It's not worth my time.

[Visentinel]

Samsung sell 160gb hdd's with 164gb of space to format nearly almost 160gb of space... why cant seagate do that.

[m.oreilly]

hog, on Oct 23 2007, 07:14 AM, said:

Seriously, what's the correct pronounciation?

banj?

[banj0]

Ah, who knows. Just joking on that really. Doc Brown said "1.21 gigawatts" and it's from the Greek word for giant. But then again, the entire english-speaking world uses a hard "g" and there's something to be said for that.

Besides, there are more important matters. Like smilies!

[m.oreilly]

i'm up wit ta jiggy watts