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Story: PC giants 'mislead on hard drive sizes' - lawsuit
Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 19 September 2003, 4:22 PM)
Seems like confusion to me... The discrepency is due to overhead a computer uses in formating and addressing the drive.
The percentage of overhead varies even within various microsoft or unix operating systems so it would be difficult to advertise the true capacity since you don't always know what will be installed and how the drive will be formated. (ie UNIX vs 2000 vs NT etc and on top of that how many partitions, NTFS,ufs etc) This is not a decimal vs binary issue.
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Story: PC giants 'mislead on hard drive sizes' - lawsuit
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It's not just those companies listed that do that.... Anonymous -
Much as ignorance of the law is no escuse for brea... adebayo omo-dare
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I thought that this had been sorted out years ago.... Anonymous
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Seems like confusion to me... The discrepency is... Anonymous -
Those people need to get a clue.
Do they not want... Star E. Night
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A bunch of ignorants trying to earn mony for their... Anonymous
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HDD are not exclusively used in PC so why do they... Anonymous
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Greed hurts everybody
What a waste of time and mon... Anonymous
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Once again, America coddles and rewards our weak a... Not Gonnatellya
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You will not Win this sueing cause there is no way... Anonymous
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I think this is all pathetic....... Its like sayin... Anonymous
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Hard drive sizes as stated as UNFORMATTED capacity... Carl White
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Star E Night is wrong. The missing space isn't due... Done Wright
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Incredible! How about a lawsuit over chip speed -... Peter Almond
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All of you that think this suit is useless or unim... Miss Representation
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The guy from Dever does not know what he is talkin... Anonymous
