I couldn't find an english link to this story, but
heise reports that Seagate is settling a suit out of court and is offering a 5% refund to residents of the US who bought a Seagate hard drive in the last few years. The actual settlement can be seen here:
http://www.harddrive-settlement.com/notice.htm
The background is the issue of hard drive capacities- Gigabyte vs. Gibibyte. I know that most people here
don't agree with me, but I think that the hard drive vendors have been reporting the capacity correctly using
decimal prefixes.
I feel very strongly about this (I've been using the
binary prefixes ever since
I found out about them).
Anyways, if you're affected, you can pick up some change!
G
