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