Western Digital Settles Capacity Dispute

[.geek]

Western Digital Corp. is offering free software to about 1 million consumers to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging that its computer hard drives stored less material than promised _ a discrepancy stemming from high-tech's different standards for sizing up digital data.

Under the settlement announced Tuesday, Western Digital will give away software designed to back up and recover computer files to anyone who bought one of the company's disk drives from March 22, 2001, through Feb. 15 of this year.

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[Scooby_Doo]

c00, just sent my claim and will get my free software.

 

[Myrrdin]

It's going to be interesting to see all the changes for "250Gb" drives being sold currently.

 

[Andre]

Hehe. Looks like one of my drives qualifies and I can't remember for sure but I may have even bought it in the US.

 

[PearlJam]

My 320gb qualified by 10 days

 

[Myrrdin]

What drives do they have in PVRs? Maybe......

 

[Bjorn]

Its about time something like this happened..
I hate it when they clearly advertise a 250GB and its only 232GB
EDIT : spelling