Possible? I'm sure someone will do this.

[BullyCanadian]

Basically, I've been thinking about how companies advertise, 120gb hard drive or 250gb hard drive or any hard drive. They say you get 120gb of space when you actually get 111gb of space. I wonder if someone will file a lawsuit against them under them having false advertising.

Possible? Happened? Opinions?

Sorry I'm bored, I should start studying for my midterms, I decided not to go out for saturday night...

 

[brunswickite]

they are not lying

120,000,000,000 bytes is 120 billion(giga) bytes

they dont acknowledge that in computers, 1024 bytes = 1 megabyte, rather then 1000

 

[Chronoshock]

This has already been debated and a lawsuit was filed sometime ago (see slashdot). This of course leads to the debate of giga,mega,kilo vs gibi,mibi,kibi. By the definition of the former, you are getting what you pay for, just your computer reads the HDD as the latter and translates it accordingly

 

[SKORPI0]

Probably not possible... Storage Capacity Measurement Standards

 

[EpsiIon]

Isn't your user name an oxymoron?

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: brunswickite
they are not lying

120,000,000,000 bytes is 120 billion(giga) bytes

they dont acknowledge that in computers, 1024 bytes = 1 megabyte, rather then 1000

If
1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte

then
1024^3 = 1 gigabye

 

[Injury]

If you're that upset about a suposed 9GB...




you need a hobby.




Real bad.

 

[sniperruff]

Originally posted by: BullyCanadian
Basically, I've been thinking about how companies advertise, 120gb hard drive or 250gb hard drive or any hard drive. They say you get 120gb of space when you actually get 111gb of space. I wonder if someone will file a lawsuit against them under them having false advertising.

Possible? Happened? Opinions?

Sorry I'm bored, I should start studying for my midterms, I decided not to go out for saturday night...

umm they do state that in their installation guides, and pretty much everywhere on their websites.

 

[FoBoT]

the marketing guys took over at the HD makers a long , long time ago
this is very old news, get over it

 

[Zee]

google says 1000mb = 1gb so you can sue them too.

PROFIT

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
If
1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte

then
1024^3 = 1 gigabye

By SI definition 1 kilobyte would be 1000 bytes.