Sinabro

ComputerWorld writes

Qualified hard drive buyers can choose cash or backup software
November 01, 2007 (Computerworld) — Seagate Technology LLC has agreed to settle a lawsuit by offering customers who purchased a hard drive from the company during the last six years a cash refund or free backup and recovery software.

Yawn. Wake me when they finally fix their ways and advertize the disk space that would show up in a modern operating system. I mean, I don’t care either way. After all, it’s not like I ever buy a hard drive mistakenly thinking that the capacity was advertised at the correct binary convention. Only idiots do that. But, even knowing that, there’s nothing more disheartening than buying a 500 GB hard drive, only to see an output like:

novakyu@nestor:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3              72G   15G   54G  22% /
tmpfs                 252M     0  252M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M   80K   10M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             459G  411G   44G  91% /media/CoolMax