Seagate owes us money

[Mercutio]

Class action settlement cash.

 

[Howell]

That looks like a very stupid lawsuit.

 

[jtr1962]

That looks like a very stupid lawsuit.

Agreed. Giga-anything means one billion or 1,000,000,000. The operating systems have had it wrong for years, and are the ones who should change how they report disk capacity. It all started when software designers started called 1024 bytes a kilobyte because 1024 was close enough to 1000 that they thought it didn't matter. However, the discrepancy became worse once we got to calling 1024² a megabyte and especially 1024³ a gigabyte. I wish they would end this nonsense once and for all by finally going back to the true meaning of the prefixes kilo, mega, and giga. There are already other metric prefixes they can use instead if they insist on sticking with the binary definition of these terms.

 

[ddrueding]

I don't care one way or the other, as long as it is consistent.

 

[Bozo]

And, no matter the size of the hard drive, the usable size is smaller yet.

Bozo :joker: