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Western Digital has settled a class action lawsuit brought by purchasers of its hard drive disks. 
 
The lawsuit claimed that the company overstated the storage capacity of its disk so buyers did not receive what they paid for. 
 
The problem is the variable definition of gigabyte (GB) which for disk makers is often rounded down to the decimal, as 1 billion bytes, while it is actually a binary number, 1,073,741,824 bytes. 
 
So an "80 GB" disk may actually hold only 74 GB of storage. 
 
Depending on your definition. 
 
The lawsuit class will receive free recovery software, and Western Digital will label its products more accurately in the future.

Western Digital Class Action Settlement Approved

Market Wire - 6/27/2006 6:54 AM

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- June 27, 2006 -- Lawyers for a nationwide class of hard disk drive purchasers announced today that a federal judge approved their settlement with Western Digital Corporation over claims the company's representations of hard drive storage capacities were misleading. The settlement is not an admission of misconduct on the part of Western Digital, which denies any wrongdoing or liability.
 
Class members who register for the settlement at www.wdc.com/settlement will receive free backup and recovery software with an estimated retail value of $30. An estimated one million purchasers are eligible for the software.
 
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