Western Digital Settles Capacity Dispute
Floppy Death! noES!!!
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From: Scranton, PA
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.
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.