Seagate to pay customers due to misleading info
Monday, November 5, 2007 by PPV
Seagate agrees to settle the lawsuit filed against it. Qualified hard drive buyers, those who have made a purchase during the last six years will be paid by choosing either cash or backup software.
Michael Lazar and Sarah Cho both purchased Seagate hard drives in the US. They are the ones who filed the initial lawsuit after finding the drives were 7% less than what is indicated on the product.
Cho alleged that Seagate's use of the decimal definition of the storage capacity term "gigabyte" (GB) whereby 1GB equals 1 billion bytes, was misleading to consumers because computer operating systems instead report hard drive capacity using a binary definition of GB, whereby 1GB equals 1, 073, 741, 824 bytes -- a difference of approximately 7% from Seagate's figures.
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Michael Lazar and Sarah Cho both purchased Seagate hard drives in the US. They are the ones who filed the initial lawsuit after finding the drives were 7% less than what is indicated on the product.
Cho alleged that Seagate's use of the decimal definition of the storage capacity term "gigabyte" (GB) whereby 1GB equals 1 billion bytes, was misleading to consumers because computer operating systems instead report hard drive capacity using a binary definition of GB, whereby 1GB equals 1, 073, 741, 824 bytes -- a difference of approximately 7% from Seagate's figures.
More here.
