Originally Posted by JGordon
I agree the settlement is lame, but so was the lawsuit. Punishing a single drive manufacturer for doing what all drive manufacturers have done since the dawn of personal computing? Lame.
I think Seagate has a case against them right now too.
Chalk it up to morons not reading the packaging and not understanding filesystem overhead.
Modems do the same thing, they sell you a 56,000bit modem, but it's FCC regulated to 53,000bit. So it's really only a 53kB modem, but 56,000b looks bigger.