Seagate Hard Drive Lawsuit

[joule]

If you bought a Seagate drive between March 22, 2001 and September 26, 2007, you are eligible. Basically, once you submit a form they can either give you software or a cash rebate.

http://www.harddrive-settlement.com/index.htm

 

[Lucid]

Wait what?

 

[Ren.182]

I have 2 seagates... what's this about? :/

 

[joule]

Did you guys even read it?

http://www.harddrive-settlement.com/notice.htm

 

[giant384]

LOL someone made a lawsuit over this crap??

 

[joule]

LOL someone made a lawsuit over this crap??

Yup. :|

I don't like how the US has become a "who can you sue today?" country, but as an avid computer user and hard drive consumer I have to agree with the plaintiff. I can't stand buying a hard drive labeled as X gigabytes and finding in Windows that it is X-7% gigabytes.

 

[Tyguy]

Summarize the lawsuit please, reading makes my head hurt

 

[CptStern]

hey I've been affected by this ..basically it's seagate promises x number of G but when installed it's actually less G ..example one my seagates is supposed to have 120G of hardrive space however only 111G of that is usable ..it amounts to false advertising

 

[joule]

Exactly, Stern.

You can either choose a Cash Payment(which is 5% of the amount you paid for the HD), or you can choose to receive a Software Benefit(whatever that may be).

 

[CptStern]

that cash settlement better be more than 5%! think of all the missed porn due to not having enough gigabytes ..wont someone please think of the missing porn?

 

[Alig]

Really.. how pathetic is this !!

Anyone who cares for backup software, would already have it, so it pretty much leaves you with a cash alternative and HDD are hardly the most expensive piece of equipment on the hardware market.. Especially 5% of of a HDD. This is really sad that someone put time and effort to begin this lawsuit.

 

[joule]

You are a member of the settlement class, if between March 22, 2001 and September 26th, 2007, you purchased in the United States a new Seagate brand hard disc drive from an authorized Seagate retailer or distributor, seaparetly as a Seagate product that was not pre-installed into a bundle with a personal computer or other electronic device.

:O Don't you live in Canada, Stern?

 

[CptStern]

I think my "cash settlement" would be around $6.00 ..hey I can buy a pack of gum

:O Don't you live in Canada, Stern?

oh ffs you damn anti-canadian seagate bastiches! I WANT MY $6 ...that's it from now on I'm only buying ......hitachi drives ..errr ...seagate drives

 

[Javert]

I'm not going to bother.

 

[giant384]

i dont see what the big deal is.....all of my hard drives have been like that. i have 2 160gb wester digitals which are at 149gb then a seagate 200gb at 186gbs its oem though so i cant get my 5%

partitioning sucks

 

[Ennui]

all hard drives do that, what a bogus lawsuit... that applies to all of the hdd companies.

 

[joule]

Aye, and who's to say Western Digital isn't next?

 

[Stigmata]

And they even say on the package that the advertised capacity is measured where 1GB = 1 billion bytes, and that the formatted capacity will be less.

 

[Asus]

Lawsuit is for those who don't read or understand measurements.
People refer to hard drive size, as Stigmata said, 1gb = 1 billion bytes.
Windows does differently, as a computer that counts in binary would.

But it is the SAME VALUE.

Like if hard drives were somehow measured in length and the box advertised it as 5 feet. And when you told someone what size your hard drive was you would say 5 feet. But windows would read it as 1.52 meters. SAME THING.

It isn't false advertising because they are getting the same size that is advertised (just measured differently). If anything, the unaware consumer is dupped into thinking he has been jipped by the very industry that tries to help them. The HDD companies probably choose to use standard base 10 as their measurement instead of the same the computer uses so the customer can understand the counting of the advertised size and not have to know about binary numbers.

 

[Krynn72]

This is dumb. Im happy with my seagate drives, so I see no reason in being twatalicious like the guy who filed the lawsuit.

 

[Kyorisu]

All the information the consumer needs is on the packaging and clearly explains why a formatted drive will appear to have less space. I cannot believe such a law suit is allowed to go anywhere.

 

[Raziaar]

I think my brother recently bought an external hard drive... 500 gigabytes, but there's like 60 something gigabytes that can't be used. I'd have to double check it though to be sure.

That's like over 10% of the hard-drive that cannot be utilized.

 

[Kyorisu]

Raz your are utilizing 100% of the HDD, you are not loosing out on anything. It's already been said that HDD manufactures use the 1000 bytes = 1mb. Your operating system sees 1024 bytes = 1mb.

 

[Asus]

Raz your are utilizing 100% of the HDD, you are not loosing out on anything. It's already been said that HDD manufactures use the 1000 bytes = 1mb. Your operating system sees 1024 bytes = 1mb.

Aye, just open up your hard drive properties and check out what the long number for bytes says.
Windows says my drive is 69.2GB but it is advertised as 74GB (raptor). But if I then look at the bytes number windows shows instead of the GB it is 74,340,044,800. If you just move the decimal over with that number then it is indeed 74GB like advertised. Like you do to convert say 74 billion instead of 74,340,044,800. Oh no! They gave me more than advertised. Should only be 74,000,000,000 bytes.