Western Digital Settles Hard Drive Capacity Lawsuit

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Take note, Apple. Western Digital is actually settling a class-action lawsuit that was filed against them. They are giving out free software to consumers who filed a lawsuit claiming the hard drives actually had less space that promised. This software is available for anyone who has purchased a Western Digital hard drive from March 22, 2001 to February 15, 2006. It isn’t just some run-of-the-mill software either, the software retail value is roughly $30 per copy.

The lawsuit stemmed because Western Digital decided to interpret one gigabyte as 1 billion bytes, while actual operating systems like Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X interpret one gigabyte by the correct number of 1.07 billion bytes. This 7-percent shortfall would be like losing 5.6GB of storage space on an 80GB hard drive. If you too have been victimized by Western Digital, then you can claim your free correction software here.

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大概看了一下。

简单地说，就是WD因为那个大家都知道的硬盘容量的不同计算方法问题被告了,现在要赔偿。赔偿对象是2001年3月22日到2006年2月15日间买WD硬盘的人。估算应该每个硬盘退$7.5。但因为实际要证明由这个问题带来的损失很困难，协商的结果是送一套价值$30的备份和恢复软件。