[mythtv-users] seagate giving refunds out

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/07/2007 03:08 PM, jedi wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:52:08PM -0600, griz_quattro wrote:
>   
>>> Steve Peters - Priority Electronics wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Seagate is giving partial refunds if you bought one of their hard drives
>>>> in the past two years because they falsely advertised the storage
>>>> capacity. I ran into this issue when i bought a few 500gb drives only to
>>>> find that they only actually have 466gb of storage. Just passing this
>>>> along to my myth friends who have helped me out in the past few months.
>> Seagate has had a good run of drives for the past few years and
>> I can not complain. Penalizing a manufacturer for the buyer's
>> ignorance is nuts. It's as irresponsible as it is incredible.
>>     
>
>   No. Kilobyte has been a well established term of art for DECADES.
>   

Which has had no less than 3 accepted meanings during those same decades.

>   It is intended to be computationally convenient.
>
>   Once upon a time, SI units were intended to be computationally
> convenient rather than merely arbitrary. Seagate chose to be 
> slimy about this and got caught.
>
>   It's like getting caught in a speed trap.
>   

When you're driving the speed limit, as posted in MPH--say 60MPH--and 
the police officer says you're doing 96.56064 because he has his speed 
gun set to display in KPH.

Again, MS should be the one being sued.  After all, they're the ones 
lying about the disk capacity by saying it's 698GB, when it's really 698GiB.

Mike