Western Digital Finally Settles Capacity Dispute

killer_uk · 28 Jun 2006 at 19:54

"Western Digital Corp. is offering free software to about 1 million consumers to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging that its computer hard drives stored less material than promised _ a discrepancy stemming from high-tech's different standards for sizing up digital data.

Under the settlement announced Tuesday, Western Digital will give away software designed to back up and recover computer files to anyone who bought one of the company's disk drives from March 22, 2001, through Feb. 15 of this year."

Claim here: http://www.wdc.com/settlement

Article here: HERE

SiriusB · 28 Jun 2006 at 20:01

A lawsuit against a practice used throughout the HDD industry :\

A 200GB for instance does have 200GB. Just using a decimal scale. If you know enough about computers to care then you should know how a manufacturer calculates its capacities and it isn't an issue then.

SiriusB

killer_uk · 28 Jun 2006 at 20:04

Yeah, it is a stupid lawsuit, but hey, its free software.

Messiah Khan · 28 Jun 2006 at 21:40

I don't want free software! I want free harddrive space. Like about 150Gb of 10k rpm harddrive space.

kinggost · 28 Jun 2006 at 21:55

what the software power dvd that i got like 50 copies of from all the graphic cards ive got

mattio1980 · 29 Jun 2006 at 19:57

what a pric* wasting mine and everyones elses time it will never change now it's been to long

t31os · 29 Jun 2006 at 20:00

I don't see how they lost that case, as mentioned its been a standard in the industry for a long time, and most PC users know this.

Really surprised by that....

kinggost · 29 Jun 2006 at 20:25

wel in sted of advertizeing them at the roundinst figger then why not put it to the nearest 10 insted of 100