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Seagate to compensate for GB confusion
SithMaster:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 25, 2007, 12:47:08 pm ---
Where would you put rolled up socks if you had no pants on?
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Womens use rolled up socks sometimes to make their boobies look bigger. Does this count.
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: knave on October 25, 2007, 12:36:20 pm ---Wow, looks like I'm entitled to a copy of the Seagate Software Suite.
Is it worth the trouble of digging out my HD and filling out the form?
I don't even know what it does.
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I think I am in the class-action group as well.
The software settlement gets you the Seagate Software Suite, which is supposed to be a $40 value. What this would include over and above DiscWizard which ships with the drive and is free, I have no idea.
Or you can get 5% of the purchase price back, which since I think I bought my drive for $20 after MIR, gets me $1 back, not counting my $0.43 for postage to send the claim in - assuming the Judge rules on the merits of the case and decides against Seagate (which is unlikely), and Seagate accepts the decision without appealing it (which is also unlikely).
And personally, I agree with Savanah Lion (sp?) - A kilobyte is 1024 Bytes, A gigabyte is 1024 Kilobytes - the HD manufacturers should have stuck with this instead of going to 1,000,000 bytes, but you can't blame only Seagate when Maxtor (which is now Seagate), IBM, Toshiba, WD and all the other companies were doing (and still are doing) the same things.
You also can't limit it to computers, as there is similar confusion over tons, tonnes, etc - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne, but it is less of an issue here because the smaller item is more common. I.e. nobody buys a truck to haul metric tons and then finds out - "Oh, you quoted English tons for that spec?"
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on October 25, 2007, 02:34:19 pm ---assuming the Judge rules on the merits of the case and decides against Seagate (which is unlikely), and Seagate accepts the decision without appealing it (which is also unlikely).
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The way I understood it, this is a settlement that Seagate proposed.
--- Quote ---And personally, I agree with Savanah Lion (sp?) - A kilobyte is 1024 Bytes, A gigabyte is 1024 Kilobytes - the HD manufacturers should have stuck with this instead of going to 1,000,000 bytes, but you can't blame only Seagate when Maxtor (which is now Seagate), IBM, Toshiba, WD and all the other companies were doing (and still are doing) the same things.
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Western Digital settled in the same way already.
I don't think the HD manufacturers will be forced to change their capacity calculations. Seems like they will be getting away with a warning that the capacity may be different.
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: patrickl on October 25, 2007, 03:17:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on October 25, 2007, 02:34:19 pm ---assuming the Judge rules on the merits of the case and decides against Seagate (which is unlikely), and Seagate accepts the decision without appealing it (which is also unlikely).
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The way I understood it, this is a settlement that Seagate proposed.
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Yes, reading it again, it looks like Seagate is offering to settle out of court for this amount, so unless the plaintiff appeals for more or the judge rules it is inadequate it will likely stand.
--- Quote ---Western Digital settled in the same way already.
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Cool - Another $0.58 cents for me - I can almost buy some value-menu fries!!!
--- Quote ---I don't think the HD manufacturers will be forced to change their capacity calculations. Seems like they will be getting away with a warning that the capacity may be different.
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Likely correct also.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on October 25, 2007, 03:28:24 pm ---Cool - Another $0.58 cents for me - I can almost buy some value-menu fries!!!
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Hey, wait... Taco Bell said everyone in America could get a free taco if anyone stole a base in last night's World Series game. Did that happen? :laugh2:
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