Hard drive size does matter

[nihil]

KOntrol...........you are talking sense...they will have you for contempt of court?

I have several western digital drives myself, and never had any problems. I think it is all legal mania? If you have ENOUGH space, isn't that OK?........it is not like a gallon of gas?

If I were the judge, I would require the plaintiffs to show me what USEFUL information they would put in the extra space.................or the contempt fine would equal several terrabytes


Cheers

[Und3ertak3r]

By the way, if the operating system could display it, one yottabye would be 0.000 000 000 000 16543612251060553497428173841399 yottabytes in the same 200GB HDD. 200GB should be 0.000 000 000 000 2 yottabytes. This would make the differences in the base of 1,000 and 1,024 systems be even more apparent. So if they are somehow successful in there claim, I want another 35 gigabytes for every one of my 200GB disks I have no

You know K0ntrole,

I was looking for an analogy for the HDD size issue.. and you just gave me an Idea.. I have looked for a way of easily explaining it for years and it was on my desk all along..
A ruler.. For years we could get the common ¨foot" ruler with inches marked on oneside, and Centimetres on the other. The fact that one side was marked as 12 inch and the other is 30cm. These could be sold as 30cm rulers. Would this be misleading? The ruler is still the same length isnṫ it? It is just two methods of measurement using two different units of mesurement.

As for warranty length... ALL the manufacturers are shipping the HDDś with 1 year warranty in Australia.. BUt then 10% of the failures I have seen are in the first year of use 85% are in drives over 3 years the other 5% (total of 2 drives) died in the second and third year.. By reducing the warranty the manufacturers are able to reduce their costs.. the Warranty is an insurance policy, either they pay an insurance company M$ or they hold a certain percentage of their stock for warranty replacement.. This all costs money.. money that could be sitting in their coffers, helping them build bigger and better HDDś.
Oh and cheaper Hard drives.. or fighting stupid law suites from people who are reading the wrong side of the ruler and thinking the ruler should be longer..

Cheers

[seabass55]

We should just move all computer products to a binary prefix system. Gibi-byte= 2^30

[stuart]

As far as I am concerned a 20gB drive holds 20gB of data. Some of that data is invisible to the user as it is actually formatting data the OS uses. A certain amount of drive capacity has always been lost to formatting. It has always been so and always will be.

If you perform the calculations using the number of heads, cylinders, tracks, sectors you can calculate the actual capacity of a drive in bytes. When was the last time anyone actually saw how many heads, etc their new drive has?

Stuart

[nihil]

I think we have had some good "newbie" input here....seabass55...very subtle stuart...very sensible.

At the end of the day, I think that the question is how many $, not how many bytes?

Just my cynical £0.02

[gizmofreak]

Just 4d sake of one more needless comment this case has begun mebbe a new era of 'windows' 2 cheat r hardware manufacturers & is good 4 people who do not have much 2 do