At 15:51 -0500 on 06/26/2006, Pommier, Rex R. wrote about Re: Western
Digital Loses Class Action-Reply by July 15th f:
So let me see if I get this straight. Western Digital sold disk drives
that they tagged as 80 GB. They used 1,000,000,000 bytes per GB instead
of the binary number. Somebody got confused and decided to sue. The
plaintiff gets $1000 and the lawyers get up to $485,000 plus expenses.
Can we say "ambulance chasers, 21st century style"?
There is also the fact that even if WD has given the correct size
(that is X GiB [ie: The Binary K=1024 size in lieu of the K=1000
bytes one]) that idiot/opportunist would have sued since the WD
measure is UNFORMATTED size and when you format you lose space due to
the room used by the Directories as well as formatting the sectors on
each track. Thus the size shown as 'available space" is always going
to be less than the actual size of the drive even if it's size was
listed as GiB [K=1024) not GB (K=1000).
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