11-09-2008, 06:46 PM
The right thing to do would be put the drive size as the typically formatted capacity, rather than unformatted...
The right thing to do would be to put the capacity on the box in standard size units, like Apple and other sites do instead of using Fine Print
In a previous thread here, somebody made a case for manufacturers using a different standard, but I don't remember if it convinced anybody.
I wouldn't mind manufactures rounding down for advertising's sake because nobody really wants to deal with reading "NOW WITH APPROXIMATELY 1 TRILLION BYTES!" or even "935GB!!"
The bigger the drive, the bigger the discrepancy, and it's not really right for manufacturers to be allowed to mislead the *general* public.
The right thing to do would be to put the capacity on the box in standard size units, like Apple and other sites do instead of using Fine Print
In a previous thread here, somebody made a case for manufacturers using a different standard, but I don't remember if it convinced anybody.
I wouldn't mind manufactures rounding down for advertising's sake because nobody really wants to deal with reading "NOW WITH APPROXIMATELY 1 TRILLION BYTES!" or even "935GB!!"
The bigger the drive, the bigger the discrepancy, and it's not really right for manufacturers to be allowed to mislead the *general* public.