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Comments: 2 +-   Seagate to pay for inaccurate kilobyte-> on Friday October 26 2007, @06:30PM Christopher Blanc

Submitted by Christopher Blanc on Friday October 26 2007, @06:30PM
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Christopher Blanc writes "Seagate Technology, the world's largest hard-drive maker, is offering customers a five percent refund on drives bought during the last six years following a lawsuit over the definition of a "gigabyte". As an alternative, customers can choose to receive free backup software.

Four people sued the company, saying they expected its drives to offer greater capacity than that actually provided. Seagate manufactures its drives based on powers of ten, with 1KB equalling 1,000 bytes. The claimants argued that 1KB of storage should compromise 1,024 bytes.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39290393,00.htm"
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