Red Dawn
19 Sep 2003, 7:19pm
This has always been a questionable aspect of hard drives and there capacity listings. It's about time someone forced companies to re-evaluate the way the advertise hard drive specs.
LOS ANGELES -- A group of computer owners has filed a lawsuit against some of the world's biggest makers of personal computers, claiming that their advertising deceptively overstates the true capacity of their hard drives.
The lawsuit, which seeks class action status, was filed earlier this week in Los Angeles Superior Court against Apple Computer, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba
According to the lawsuit, computer hard drive capacities are described in promotional material in decimal notation, but the computer reads and writes data to the drives in a binary system.
The result is that a hard drive described as being 20 GB would actually have only 18.6 GB of readable capacity, the lawsuit said
The full report:
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60505,00.html
Post edited and comments added by Spinner. Thanks also to TD_Isles for the heads up on this news aswell.
LOS ANGELES -- A group of computer owners has filed a lawsuit against some of the world's biggest makers of personal computers, claiming that their advertising deceptively overstates the true capacity of their hard drives.
The lawsuit, which seeks class action status, was filed earlier this week in Los Angeles Superior Court against Apple Computer, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba
According to the lawsuit, computer hard drive capacities are described in promotional material in decimal notation, but the computer reads and writes data to the drives in a binary system.
The result is that a hard drive described as being 20 GB would actually have only 18.6 GB of readable capacity, the lawsuit said
The full report:
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60505,00.html
Post edited and comments added by Spinner. Thanks also to TD_Isles for the heads up on this news aswell.