Western Digital Settles

WD settles their class action lawsuit that addresses how capacity is referred to on hard drive labels. This is obviously not a bad thing so now when you buy a 200GB hard drive, you actually get a 200GB hard drive.

Or hopefully that is what happens considering the disparity is now over 7% on these large drives.

SAN FRANCISCO - Western Digital Corp. is offering free software to about 1 million consumers to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging that its computer hard drives stored less material than promised - a discrepancy stemming from high-tech's different standards for sizing up digital data.